Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terrific melodrama of history called The Spanish Armada is a play within the play. Captured by the English defenders is a Spanish nobleman. In love with him is the lovely English heroine. The whole thing ends up with a lot of deaths, a fearful sea fight and a pageant for British victory. Through it all, the Critic sits by and thinks everything wonderful...
...family fireside. This wife talked and put bad ideas into one young lady's head which did her no good; the husband was nearly snared by a stenographer. Many expensive actors were wasted on all this-Lewis Stone, Anna Q. Nilsson, Shirley Mason and Ian Keith-and a lot of terrible subtitles, such as: "You are my wife and I know you are clean to the core." Up the Ladder. One more atrocity is perpetrated. It is the old story of the sacrificing wife who makes her husband famous only to find that he is deserting...
Then, said Dr. Vizetelly, the language could be "standardized" making easier the lot of the lexicographer. "We have earned the reputation of being a mumbling, jumbling, whanging, twanging, whinnying people...
...Bowdoin's mellow Memorial Hall, the first to speak was Poet Robert Frost. He read Longfellow's Flight Into Egypt, dwelt a while on his own favorite theme of "vocal imagination" -"Longfellow, you see," said Poet Frost, "used no figures of speech. Our poets today, a lot of them, are metaphor-crackers. They crack metaphors as other people crack jokes"-and concluded: "The idea that the only literature is the literature of the past is wrong. This meeting, the Institute, might well be the beginning of a renaissance." Sprightly Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay was present. She contributed...
...Lampoon 2G.B., veteran twirler of the paper which bears his name has been practicing in his back lot for weeks. He has boasted that he will be able to hold the powerful CRIMSON nine to 22 runs, but in view of his poor support, this hardly seems probable. The lampoon has elected no athletes to its fold since...