Word: moods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast can not study too intently. Gretchen, the desperate wife who is driven to shrewishness, is played with a wealth of interpretative understanding by Emma Dunn, while George Riddell in the role of the rich grasping merchant of Falling Waters, too phlegmatic in the first act, rises to the mood of his later lines. There is an excellent bit of juvenile acting by Dora Cramer as Meenie, Rip Van Winkle's little daughter, completely offset by Olive Tell who takes the part of Meenie many years later. Miss Tell flutters and ravishes those beyond the footlights utterly unconscious that...
...However, now that I have gradually lulled my mind into a some what reminiscent mood, I do recall incidents which have come close to kindling the spark of revolt in my breast, because, you know, I was 'bawn in Kaintuckee and cawn-fed in Alabamy', and the Mason-Dixon line having always possessed for me the proportions of a veritable wall of China, I was prepared to be intensely critical, vibrantly sensitive, and susceptible to every influence brought to bear on me at Harvard. How faithfully I have fulfilled this vow remains to be seen...
...opening game of the football season found Harvard in a new mood and with fresh spirit. In spite of the atrocious conditions the team entered upon its task with a show of confidence and determination which was refreshing after the sluggishness of some of our recent teams...
...From the ends of the earth returning students come. Sophomores, wiser and more important than they ever have been or ever will be again; Juniors, serence and confident now that half their task is done; Seniors, abased and apprehensive in the thought of approaching divisional examinations. But in whatever mood, they come, and that's enough. Harking back in tradition to the little provincial college of 1636, Harvard now enters upon its two hundred and ninetieth year, a great University, mighty in the service not only of America but of the world...
...highly amused and I was almost getting in the mood to sing other songs...