Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there be two dances the same crucial evening. Let the one be in Memorial Hall and the other in the Union. Let the general run of "representative" Juniors, attend the function in the festive atmosphere of Memorial Hall. Let those whom one likes to look upon as fellow-mortals gather together in the exclusive Union after due selection by a select committee of those "whose names are withheld by request...
...rumor which has reached the Yard to the effect that the Class of 1930 may, possibly, see fit to abolish the traditional Junior Dance, has aroused the approbation of at least one of the inhabitants of that precinct. For the Junior Dance, or Prom--as you choose to look at it--has been slowly dying for the last ten years; it is time to bury the corpse...
...convinced that the proportion of various social groups at the function is in general the same as that between the same groups in the greater body of the College. Unfortunately, however, with the reduced numbers, the total of the undergraduates of that class which one would like to look upon as representative of the University is negligible...
...played at the tempo originally indicated; the second because the incongruity of seeing Heinrich Heine and Giacomo Meyerbeer cavorting about the stage, not to mention George Sand fainting and a rather picturesque but wholly unconvincing ending to the whole, strikes a false note. Perhaps, if one could look upon the production as purely imaginary, if one could forget the historical and musical associations which the dramatis personae call up, the enjoyment of the audience might be greater...
...Echardt was sorry to lose his son but he was glad to retain the beautiful, the charming lisa. Hers was the last entrance onto the stage; she mixed Albert a drink of bicarbonate of soda, while he sat playing the piano, and she handed it to him with a look at once teasing, gay, quizzical and tender; as he turned to take his medicine, his eyebrows rose with gratitude and the curtain fell. There are those plays so delicately, so truly funny that one forgets to laugh until a perhaps clumsy joke, inserted for no other purpose, ignites the fuse...