Word: highbrowed
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...that the term "prize play" is a trifle misleading. For while "Mamma's Affair", which won for Miss Butler the Morosco prize for 1919, is an interesting and often clever little piece, it can scarcely be termed anything very exceptional. Certainly it is free from the taint of being "highbrow" which is so often associated with the name of Harvard, and a well-filled house received with apparent enjoyment the oft repeated walling of "mamma", who is a "sentimental hypochrondiac". The first act is slow, the second good, the third excellent. If we admit that a prize play may have...
...general public, were highly pleased. One expressed the sentiment of the audience by stating that the play was a same presentation of modern youth. Spectators away from Boston and New York seemed to take pleasure in finding that the Workshop was playing a piece that was not "highbrow",--that interested and amused them...
With its concert last night the University Band has extended its activities. No longer will its appearance be limited to athletic events. By this new policy the Band is filling a gap which was left when the Glee Club started to give more "highbrow" concerts last fall...
When the Glee Club broke away from the Musical Clubs and launched its new policy of presenting "highbrow" music last fall, their project was greeted with many misgivings. It was a new departure in College music, and it was felt that such a policy would be unpopular among the undergraduates and would fail to obtain the support of the general public...
...grouped together on a single platform, such grotesque combinations as a Russian anti-Czarist who had learned in his youth to respect Lenine and an Irish agitator or agitatress; a Western I. W. W. angered because of the treatment of his leaders in our courts and an eastern highbrow who had detected an inconsistency in the government's policy; a former editor of a German paper who could see no wrong in the Lusitania affair and a religious pacifist who would not take another life to protect...