Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the squad will get on the ice a week sooner than last year Coach Bigelow will have much more time to look over all the candidates and to test their relative merit instead of relying on past performances in deciding whom to cut and whom to retain...
...Wednesday evening, Mme. Elena Gerhardf, one of the great song artists of our time, will sing. Her program is as well chosen as her art is mellow. Her recital should be of unusual merit...
...very most out of any role that he is given, no matter how minor it may be, and he accomplishes this without over-acting. As much cannot be said for Mr. Remley and Mr. Elkins, the other two unlucky lovers. On the strength of their acting they entirely merit their ill fortune. Mr. Nedell, the blue ribbon winner, has little to do, but does it well...
...Diplomatic service now is conducted as nearly on the merit system as any human organization can be. Young men who enter can be reasonably sure that they will have the same opportunity to show their stuff that they would have in some business concern. The only branch in which the merit system is not exclusively employed is in the appointment of heads of mission. In this regard, the President still keeps his right to reward prominent men at home with ministerial or ambassadorial appointments abroad, but at the same time he has not disregarded the capable men who have risen...
Ashes. Florence Reed is in tears again. Since she can go down to the centre of the stage and have a good cry better than almost any actress we have, the exhibition is bound to manifest some merit. Miss Reed's tears are shed principally over her baby. This year it is a perfectly legitimate baby, somewhat contrary to the custom of her recent plays. It dies just as she is about to go on to play the big scene in Antony and Cleopatra. . She screams she can't go on, and then does. In the last...