Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freely admitted, trembled on that night. After the first act, they trembled no longer; for the Inglesi made her appear 20 times before the curtain, clapping her long, and even cheering her in their funny, diffident way. Later that evening, the famed Patti told her: "You have won by merit the crown that I have laid aside...
Clever satire is rare enough in these days to merit special recognition. In the article reprinted below, the New Student has used it to strike a sure deft blow against all that is illiberal and cheap in American college journalism. It is a fact that many college editors prostitute their intellectual standards and their literary skill to "exhorting application to study, denouncing unmoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass." When modern education allows such inanity to flourish about its inmost shrine there is some reason for Mr. Upton Sinclair...
America. "Here stands our country, an example of tranquillity at home, a patron of tranquillity abroad. Here stands its Government, aware of its might but obedient to its conscience. . . . America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. . . . She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty...
...enough to become a competent judge, yet I feel that your system of general courses, in literatures particularly, afford a very real superiority over the specialty system that we have in France. Of course, general courses are of necessity accompanied by a certain degree of superficiality, but their great merit is that they give the student a balance and a broader basis on which to form his judgments...
...perfect picture. Objectors swear that there was a deeper thrust of idealistic sincerity to the part as Ibsen wrote it. If this is your reading of the play, Mr. Gamble was exceedingly inept. Blanche Yurka, Tom Powers and a newcomer named Helen Chandler are three perform ers that fully merit the oft misused word "scintillating." Such a combination of ideas and interpretation is indeed rare in the playgoer's experience...