Word: niftiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...either team lucky to come out on top. Marsters had what have properly been called five of football's greatest minutes and the "alert atom" of the New Haven outfit put on such an exhibition of clever running as has rarely been seen. The little Eli star is the niftiest player you ever hope to see on a football field. When tackled he lands as lightly as a feather, and quite as often as not he would skip over the sidelines just in time to leave a big Indian defender foolishly sprawling on the turf. Harvard can well star preparing...
That somewhat evanescent figure,--especially in Boston,--the theatre-going public wants to be harrowed or amused, The long and useful life of the "niftiest" mystery play, "The Bat", was ample proof of the popularity of the first. But even the theatre-going public, beyond a certain point, like Mr. Coomber in "Listening In", refuses to be frightened by something which it does not believe in. Ectoplasm, mysterious appearances, clutching hands, automatic writing, all serve their purpose in conducting hair-calisthenics. But to have them poked at half in earnest, half in mild satire, combines both the successful elements...