Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flagellation of one William Archer, an eminent English dramatic critic who was so imprudent as to publish a book. "The Old Drama and the New," ridiculing the Elizabethan dramatists. This work holds that many of the seventeenth century plays tend toward a childish over emphasis of the horror element, and contrasts the unpretentious realism of the modern stage. In spirited refutation, O'Casey tied Webster's "Ducieas of Malfi," and pointed out that the swords and bloody charnel-houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones and camisoled ladies seen on the boards today. Archer...
...Phillips Endecott Osgood of Emanuel Church and Rev. Dr. Arthur Lee ("Little Tui") Kinsolving of Trinity Church announced a Thursday afternoon "Snow Train Service," to begin this week. Rectors of Boston's two largest Episcopal churches, they wish to bring back to church that "large and significant element in the modern community" who are kept away from Sunday worship by "the automobile and the suburban out-of-door week-end." Rectors Osgood and Kinsolving will participate jointly in the "Snow Train Service," so named after the special train on which Bostonians travel to winter weekends in Vermont...
Beautiful coordination and power to burn were the main factors that brought Dartmouth its 10-0 whitewashing of the Varsity on Saturday, but Harvard's own faults were a big element in the defeat. The general showing was definitely below that of the Holy Cross game a week earlier and a bad forecast of the Princeton encounter to come...
Like the student group this represents a reversal of feeling on the part of the Faculty as far as the Washington Administration is concerned. By a narrow margin the professorial element was willing to give the New Deal a try last June. But yesterday the record stood 141 "no's" on the question "Do you feel that the policies of the Roosevelt Administration offer a satisfactory method to Recovery"? to 50 "yes" votes. Several men refused to make a decision and marked their ballots...
...grounds, to the tearing down of the goal-posts in the exuberance of a well-earned victory. But the free-for-alls, in which numerous people are injured, are not only sophomoric but dangerous. They are a relic of the old collegiate days, and an encouragement to a raucous element that attends the Stadium more for the ensuing fights than to view the games themselves...