Word: mask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some years the Princeton Triangle Club, the Cornell Masque, the Pennsylvania Mask and Wig and similar undergraduate organizations have taken trips through principal cities of the country during vacation. By means of these performances, more is done to gain adherents to the college producing them than any ordinary sort of propaganda could ever do. Youths who are looking about for their future college not only see the performance which is, or should be, in itself attractive, but afterwards meet its men at social functions, and from them draw an impression of the college which sent them...
...from his autumnal aspect the Tiger Invades Cambridge tonight, yet rather than invasion it is peaceful penetration. Instead of the warlike garb of the gridiron, he enters the scene in fantastic dress or undress; instead of arraying himself in nose-guard and headgear, he screens his face behind the mask of Thespis; instead of cleated boots, he wears the sock and buskin...
...ironies that grow with reflection. The struggles of Raimunda to protect her daughter and the honor of her family; the useless resistance of Esteban to the "envious, evil mind" that is controlling his life; the guilty love of Acacia for her stepfather, concealed until the last moment under a mask of hate; and the remorseless jealously of the dead, that finally confounds sweet-heart and enemy in one final ruin-these are the elements that, under Benavente's touch, take life and from upon the stage. The slow movement of the tragedy affords ample time for some excellent dialogue...
...assembly of an evening around one of the tables, and instead of utilizing the sacred quiet unobtainable in most dormitories for composing eleventh-hour masterpieces in History, or heroically attempting to absorb three weeks' worth of Fine Arts in three hours, they make their books and papers a mask for a very congenial conversational society. By means of argument and repartee, now subdued and earnest, now noisy and hilarious, they succeed only too well in preventing their neighbors from any sort of concentrated study...
...happened at Brown recently. A cylinder containing phosgene corroded and allowed this most dangerous gas to escape throughout the chemistry building. Prompt action on the part of members of the chemistry department saved many people from this menace. One of the professors entered the building equipped with a gas mask and placed the tank in a solution of sodium phenolate to neutralize...