Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anton Chekhov's plots are not exciting. His craft is to introduce, in rambling stage narrative, bits of daily life, dull except to the few who love inspired satire. Theatregoers who seek effortless entertainment are warned to avoid The Three Sisters. So consistently is the mood of restless boredom maintained on the stage that it will surely transmit itself to any half-asleep onlooker. To those who can emerge from the day's fracas of commercial activity with relish for intellectual adventure, The Three Sisters will prove one of the season's delights...
McKinlock Hall, the newest Freshman dormitory is finished, except for some parts of the interior, and completes the picturesque are of Freshman dormitory is finished, except for some parts of the interior, and completes the picturesque are of Freshman Halls along the Charles. With this Hall completed, some three-fourths of the entering class is accommodated in modern dormitories...
Immediately after the practice was over, the entire squad of 36 athletes left for the Oakley Country Club, where they will stay, except for a short return for classes and practice today, until shortly before game time tomorrow...
...announced yet, three positions on the Harvard team still lacking Coach Horween's final decision. It seems almost certain, however, that Strong will start instead of Saltonstall and that Kilgour, veteran of two Princeton games will be in his guard position at the initial whistle. The backfield is settled except for the choice between Guarnaecia and French as running mate to Miller and Sayles. Guarnaccia is the present favorite for the starting berth, which would leave French as a dangerous threat in a relief role...
...play is entirely Miss Kennedy and Sidney Blackmer, and not at all the work of its authors, Princess Troubetzkoy and Gilbert Emery, who seem to have loaned it little except their names. To be sure, there is a professional smoothness about the book of the play, an assurance which borders on insouciance; and the air of boredom with which the authors play on the easily tuned instrument of the public galls even the thick-skinned among Boston playgoers. There is an assumption that the playwrights know what the public swallows alive and buys wholesale, a dangerous assumption...