Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demonstrate that the ladies of the ensemble spend their off hours in Long Island homes fending off businessmen who are anything but tired. On the road the piece was called Undressed Kid and it contained an unusual amount of bedroom material, especially underpanties. As if vulgarity were not enough, the playwright sought to disentangle the plot with a series of dull and tiresome explanations. It lasted four days. Then a patrol wagon called for Mr. Grew and his assistants. Actress Alice Weaver, chief of the innocents, collapsed, screamed for her mother...
...they lived long enough Edgar Saltus could have typed Imperial Purple on a purple machine and Nathaniel Hawthorne could have related the woes of Hester Prynne with a scarlet fountain pen. To pens, typewriters and kitchen sinks as well as to roadsters, vanity boxes and magazine covers, has come Color...
...Bismarckian politics, Junker fraternities, duels and drinking bouts - everything, in. short, but intellectualism. To point the narrative Sudermann projects a philosophical genius into the stolid pussyfooting faculty, and predicates the dangerous futility of his in dependent thinking. That Professor Sieburth should have independent ideas strikes the faculty as bad enough, but that he should live his ideas is intolerable...
...these, a subaltern, loved Lois- genuinely; but not pugnaciously enough to defy her aunt's disapproval: he had neither riches nor pride of family, his relatives lived vaguely in Surrey, and that, thought Aunt Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir herself to contradict her aunt. When a few days later the subaltern, on patrol, was shot from ambush, Aunt Myra thought it sad, and continued her teas. Lois pondered, to no avail, and went abroad to get on with her French. But that was their last bland September; by the next, revolutionary...
...Freshman year makes it doubly burdensome. The changes it has undergone have limited and tried to tighten its sagging structure; but its usefulness, always dubious, has about disappeared: and its improved and specialized second part should offer sufficient elementary instruction to any man whose other work proves him intelligent enough to enter Harvard...