Word: merest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entrances smooth and logical--there was never an awkward moment. The danger, from the actor's point of view, lay in over acting. Those who remember plays of this sort in Germany, recall the heavy buffoonery and ridiculous capers of the characters; the plays were reduced to the merest and broadest farce, with the comedy values obscured by clownish antics. There was none of this as the Dramatic Club gave it. Comedy values were emphasized for all they were worth, but never allowed to degenerate...
...confronted with a condition, not a theory. Yesterday Harvard did its share towards remedying that condition. And yet all the aid which we in America can lend must remain the merest palliative. The countries at war are enabled to raise billions to equip men and send them forth to add to the destruction and slaughter, while they are content to leave the wounded and starving to whoever happens along. To Europe it is war, not charity. This winter the United States will have its own problems of suffering and starvation. The need for relief will not be so keenly felt...
Without doubt the most interesting part of the lecture was that which dealt with the rescue of the four survivors of the "Columbian'. It was only by the merest chance that the little boat was sighted, for if two hours had not been lost in making soundings and other investigations, the "Seneca" would have been far out of its path and would have passed it in the night. The boat, distinguished by a coat fastened to a pole, was sighted three miles off. The men, when found, had only a handful of crumbs left as their rations, but after...
...past scores is not a sure means of forecasting future results, if such a comparison is made of the Dartmouth and Harvard scores this season, our opponents appear to have the stronger team. While Princeton defeated us 8 to 6, it defeated Dartmouth 3 to 0 by the merest fluke, and those who saw the game were inclined to believe that Dartmouth had really the more effective team...
...anecdotes, serving as contributions of fiction, are the merest amiable trifles, though Mr. Peterson's work again declares his rare faculty of careful observation of outer nature and of personal emotion. In "Lost at Sea" Mr. Gilkey has wasted his finished metrical technique and his vivid sense of the rhythm of blank verse upon an incoherent story of a poetical cabin boy marooned upon a desert island by an ogre-like sea captain. Had the poem been long enough to admit of an explanation of the captain's hatred, the narrative might at least have seemed possible...