Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith of Washington and Lee University was puzzled and depressed. He was contemplating the fact that, out of every 100 U. S. youngsters who start off in kindergarten, only four or five take high school diplomas; and the further fact that of these young hopefuls, theoretically a hand-picked lot, anywhere from 10 to 25 in 100 make a dismal botch of their freshman year at college...
Instead he would like to see young America clod-hopping to Mr. Dunham's monotonous fiddle. Surely there is no harm in such exercise. The young people who went through it with Mr. Dunham made a lot of noise to indicate enjoyment, but looked very much as if they would rather be doing something more difficult and more graceful. The old folks appeared as if they had never learned to dance at all, and therein lay the pathos of the whole exhibition. It was their patient, uncertain attempts to attain any sort of grace in their movements which showed conclusively...
...really havn't got an awful lot to say in favor of the lyrics or the staging or the book of "The Fool for Scandal", but we are heartily in accord with the spirit in which in is given. In any musical comedy, whether amateur or professional, it is important that the actors should realize at the outset that their efforts are not going to revolutionize the drama, but may very likely serve as excellent entertainment for several odd hundred people. To aftain that end all the necessary seriousness of rehearsals and first performances must be dropped when the show...
...time we're way off key on both of them. In so far as the plot seeks to burlesque the matrimonial difficulties of one Nooky, a newspaper reporter, it is reasonably clever, just reasonably. There was always the distinct impression that Mr. Grossman and Mr. Morgan were putting a lot more into their lines than was actually intended, Mr. Crosby, as far as we could see, made the part of Mrs. Smith pretty much of a riot, all on his own hook...
...chorus, it possessed the usual attraction of female impersonation which means a whole lot to any audience largely composed of friends, parents and reviewers. (And by the way who was that girl who sat beside us and took shorthand notes? We didn't know whether she was writing down funny remarks about the play, or about...