Word: faced
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lampoon readers -- the dialogue and the illustration go hand in hand, and each adds to the effect of the other. The centre-page fails to take advantage of the possibilities of an excellent idea. The old age of a joke on page 16 suggests the inquiry, "Who had the face to do it?" A large proportion of the minor articles are disappointing--many of the rest, however, are distinctly worth while, and leave a good impression...
...University team plays with the determination and alertness which it showed in the Pennsylvania and Georgetown games, and exhibits the same ability to face critical moments successfully, the chances of victory this afternoon should be good...
...living faith in future existence has no place in the modern social and political problems which face the human race. One reason for the prevailing popular indifference is caused by uncertainty. It is commonly supposed, that a man is appalled at the approach of death. This is erroneous, for as a rule man dies uninfluenced by the thoughts of future life...
...alchemist around whom the action centres, carried off a difficult part effectively and with full appreciation of the possibilities of the role. As Drugger, a tobacco man, a minor part originally played by David Garrick, D. C. Manning '04 gave a clever and finished bit of acting; and as Face, P. E. Osgood '04 acted creditably a part requiring great swiftness of action and much ingenuity. K. K. Smith '04, as Dol, the accomplice of Face and Subtle, was convincingly feminine, and without overdrawing, infused, a great deal of spirit and dash into the role...
...play satirizes the folly of the time, the search for the philosopher's stone. One Master Lovewit, frightened by the spread of the plague in London, departs for the country, leaving his house in care of his butler, Jeremy, better known because of his militant audacity as Face. Face fetches Subtle, a charlatan, into the house and represents him to all comers as one skilled in alchemy, able at will to call up the spirits of heaven and earth. Aided by Dol, Subtle's wife, the cunning sharpers play upon the credulity of the London populace. In the midst...