Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That is just what it is. The message is a domestic warning to males. Confide in your wife, it counsels. Tell her all your troubles and your problems. Tell her a joke now and then. All this is demonstrated through the medium of a cabaret girl who married an earnest youth and got on amiably with him despite her inconspicuous beginnings. Another, more propitious, marriage in the picture crumbled because the principals were partners but not companions. Doris Kenyon helps matters along with a serviceable emotional performance...
...first place, Mr. Hampden's version stretches across three hours and 30 minutes of the watcher's time. The play is simply not sufficiently invigorating to sustain the stubborn interest of the casual attendant. In the second place, the interpretation of Mr. Hampden, scholarly and earnest as it is, seems somehow to fail the Moor. He plays Othello resonantly and with determination. Always he plays it; never does he bring the suffering soldier to life. Furthermore, the Desdemona of Jeannette Sherwin is distinctly under standard. Iago (Baliol Holloway, Englishman) gives a curiously individual, irritating and yet undeniably admirable...
...with this problem. President Lowell keenly appreciates the situation, but his report suggests no satisfactory remedy. Since, however, the great and primary work of building up the tutorial system is now nearing completion, the hope arises that this secondary Freshman problem will be the next to command the earnest attention, of President and Faculty...
...beat And Tom went howling down the street-is obviously "bad grammar, bad morals." I chiefly object," said earnest Mrs. Stoner "to teaching children such nonsense because it misrepresents life. . . . It is not only criminal to do so but it helps to make criminals of children." Then, to show that she was not merely a destructive critic, Mrs. Stoner recited one of the numerous "jingle facts" that she has written in the hope of ousting Mother Goose...
Before her as she wrote her adver-tisement came "the earnest faces of the 14,000 students of the University of Berlin, representing 17 nationalities, before whom I was invited ta sing and speak by the official heads of the University (I being the only American artist who had been thus invited)." And she wound up: "Never have I been so imbued with the desire to bring joy, to elevate the children through my art, my, pen and my deep religious convictions; and I am more earnest, interested and active than ever since I know that thought is force...