Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type not wit but humor. In fact the play depends little on its lines; it is from character, incident, and pure stage effect that the author, Frederick Isham, has gleaned his laughs. The play moves amiably from situation to situation, with little suspense except in the person of the hapless Spoofy, whose mystery is satisfactorily solved at the last moment, and untangles the knot for them...
Such is the monstrous fate which overhangs the hapless undergraduate. What a relief, therefore, to learn that the fuss is all due to a new efficiency system whereby the "goody" must give a reason if a room is not "made up"--and the easiest excuse is, of course, that the occupant rose too late. This is to protect the "goody" from being discharged for laziness. So the persecuted student may breathe freely once more and seek his downy coach without fear that his "morning after" snores will shake Olympus. The little white card which alone bears the testimony...
...sanctions and cherishes Armfield's "synthetic drama" and the futurist antics of Marinetti. The reader of the newspapers learns with astonishment that the aeroplane has been successfully adopted by criminals for purpose of escape, and that Trotzky is producing a series of communistic plays which he is forcing the hapless Russians to attend...
...deplorable miscalculation which resulted in the eventless, wholesale roundup seems to have been caused by the excellence of the bootleggers' product. The army of thirty lumberjacks, who were apparently counted on to repulse the officers, was paralyzed by the liquor. Had there been less kick in the product, the hapless, defenseless bootleggers might have fulfilled their anticipation of stimulating the courage of their constituents rather than seeing all the available bravery drowned in the gutter...