Word: frothed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When examinations had been stressed at lunch to the exclusion of all intelligent conversation, the Vagabond yesterday left a petition at University Hall to have them abolished. It is time that something of the sort is done. These biannual excitations inducing a kind of subsidiary froth are naturally abhorrent to the epicure of food and talk. Dishonoring the tolerant muse of wisdom with such mental debauchery can be endured in silence; but the gibberings of the Bereaved One of Mt. Auburn St. should not be allowed to interfere with digestion...
...bishop who's quite fond of banning Whatever he haps to be scanning Made some one so wroth That he shouted with froth: "You cannot serve both God and Manning...
...husband wanders in and discovers that his friend is living in a replica of his wife's bedroom. All ends well, however, and despite the naughty promise which some of the lines suggest, the cast emerges as clean as a whistle. Room Of Dreams is pretty uninspired theatrical froth...
...sense that it builds up a carefully constructed argument, but he pierces every situation with a shaft of illuminating light that is more revealing than any quanity of common sense. He goes at the reason through the emotions and he arrives with an awakening crash. It may be froth, it may be genius; Mr. De Casseres himself probably does not know...
...play under present consideration is a delightful English comedy. It consists of that more mature humor of contrasting characters, not caricatures. There is a certain mellowness and sub stance in Mr. Drinkwater's handling, and of course, the sureness of an accomplished dramatist. And there is no heap of froth to hide any inadequacies of plot. The usual "Says who-whozzat" business usually associated with comedy is fortunately omitted. The situation is presented and the comedy is a matter of the effect upon the different characters, always true to their type; ever so slightly satirical but always good natured...