Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play in which a man pawed a young woman with animal intent. (Down Stream...
That is to say that wit and charm were the playwright's intent. Actually, he did not charge his manuscript with an overabundance of either. The performances of Beatrice Hendricks and Curtis Cooksey were fairly helpful...
...bloc to demand absolute equality for women; the League of Women Voters, content to work through existing parties for more modest political ends; the General Federation of Women's Clubs, with more general cultural aims, an amateur in the game of politics; and a host of societies intent on improving the world - the Junior League through charity, the W. C. T. U. through morals, church organizations through religion, still others by abolishing war, tobacco, etc.- not to mention organizations for women of special interests, such as the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, the Women's Trade...
...part of Henry IV is an unwieldy play of many scenes and conflicting purposes. It is a mixture of low comedy and romantic melodrama. It has probably never played very well. It has not played at all in Manhattan for 30 years. The Players' resuscitation, exceedingly commendable in intent and reasonably efficient in effect, was restricted to a single week...
...ideal is that education may be free from pedantry, that the facts necessary for scholarly reputation in a subject be not forced upon the casual student caring only for its cosmic position, at the expense of an understanding of its scope and color. All students, save those with professional intent are casual as compared with their instructors; wherefore the instructor must assume two distinct beings, the scholar and the teacher. In the one he must be thorough systematic; in the other he must own a genius for stepping outside of himself to correctly apportion, emphasize, and attract...