Word: faces
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...beast refuses to devour said tailor in the arena. That is the core of the entertainment. The meat is found in the incidentals, which are mainly dialogue. Shaw cares no more for our emotions than for the play, as such, so why should we take it with a long face and call it 'daring dialogue." Nothing of the sort. It is a colossal toying with one fanciful idea after another. Think of a lion out-roaring a Caesar
Alexander McAlister, as "The Laird," was a jovial Scot with a ruddy face and flaming beard. The "Taffy" of Talbot Wynne, the "Little Billee" of William Bagot and the "Zou-Zou" of Ignacio Martinette were all adequately played...
...second place, the drainage and purification system is present in name more than in fact. The troughs at the side that are made to drain off the sur- face water as it splashes up into them are broken in one place, so that the water that flows into them at that end of the tank flows back into the pool again, bringing with it the phlegm that has been spit into the trough by the swimmers. On one occasion I noticed that all the troughs were filled to overflowing, and asked the attendant how it happened that the drains were...
Yale will be called upon to face a wide-open offense in the Springfield game. Springfield came to the Stadium last year and though losing, 44 to 0, came dangerously near scoring through a varied attack of forward passes and open formations. Despite the many injuries suffered by Yale in last week's game a stronger line-up will be presented than heretofore...
...professional study accompany the getting of an acquaintance with many other subjects, so that both go along together, the professional training supplying the backbone of the college curriculum? This is a much more subtle, if not a more difficult, question, and it is one that we must actually face, because it involves a strong existing tendency among American colleges. Again the answer to it is found only in practical experience. Professional study leading to a man's career in life is, and ought to be, almost passionately absorbing in comparison with other subjects pursued at the same time. These...