Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That's stage stuff in so far as the union officials are concerned. . . . These folks you saw were dubs. ... I mean by that that they enjoy misery?or what would be misery to you or me, but to them is just normal existence. Why, some of them have been living like that around here for three years, and they'll continue to do it as long as the public helps them and the union exploits them...
Credulous persons who enjoy a faith in parental paradoxes were no doubt disconcerted last week when they discovered the result of researches into the heredity of students at Yale and Harvard. These results were announced by Dr. Ellsworth Huntington, research associate of the department of geography at Yale. They indicated that the most representative undergraduates, the most successful graduates from Yale and Harvard were the sons of missionaries; next came the sons of professors; third came the sons of ministers. Businessmen's sons were low on the list, farmers' sons at the bottom...
...recipe for making an audience enjoy itself is to try to keep human, and to bind humor with interest. I don't believe in any of these wild-eyed ideas of the drama...
Hidden somewhere in the dark reaches of the Bostoa Opera House (tradition and the sentimentalists say it is the second balcony but occasionally a true aesthete slips unbeknownst into the orchestra) are those who have come really to appreciate and to enjoy the sonorous grandeurs of the opera. For them the occasion is more than a display of what adorns the better vertebrae. And, contrary to fiction, an ability to eat spaghetti and bellow bravo is not a requisite for inclusion in the intelligentsia...
Those who are amused to see crude and rather unattractive old men making love to snappy young widows and suffering all the tribulations that are entailed in making themselves appropriately presentable; and those who enjoy seeing simple-minded, timid, young gentlemen involving themselves with innocent but ardent young ladies, saving the day finally through sheer dumbness, acquiring a few millions for themselves into the bargain, should go to see Bronson Howard's "The New Henrietta", at the Repertory Theatre this week...