Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest where defeat carries no sting and victory produces no conceit. As a consequence the game is much the same in prospect as in retrospect. The teams go on the field and the spectators enter the stadium with enthusiasm unalloyed by the distaste of defeat which so often provides a disagreeable undercurrent of repression. All are aware that the afternoon's game holds no potential ruin of the evening's pleasure...
...that field are faced with the restrictive option of either learning the language by extra-classroom methods or enrolling in that course which of all courses hold least attraction for the average man, interested in English literature though he may be--Beginning Anglo-Saxon. The result is that often even an illusory hope of a Summa is crushed in its natal travail: a half year spent in the acquisition of a tongue which may be an asset to some but is certainly not an intellectual necessity for all, is frequently considered so valuable that it cannot be sacrificed, even though...
...hired a troupe. To head it he hired Helen Hayes, and by her playing she joined immediately the tiny group of actresses who make the theatre a land of wonder, tears & pure delight. Ably seconding her acts is Elliot Cabot, Harvard graduate, who has, in the past, often been cast unprepos-sessingly as a frothy ne'er-do-well. Herein he plays a rough villager with whom the fickle lady of the play falls surpassingly in love. Her southern family storm; and her father shoots the villager. For the gay, lying lady, suddenly swept off her feet...
...phrase often penned by Samuel Pepys, who will live in the genial preservative of a diary he kept in the 17th Century as long as there is English literature. Mr. Pepys was not, in the Victorian interpretation, a strictly moral man, and it is from his amatory propensities that much of this graceful comedy is spun. He visits a lady's lodging with the worst motives in the world; is interrupted by the arrival of His Gracious Majesty Charles II who has practically the same motives; is further embarrassed by the entrance of irate Mrs. Pepys. Wallace Eddinger plays...
...beautiful and amazingly expressive face; a voluptuous figure, with a rare grace of movement; a voice which, at its best-and it usually was at its best-was as lovely, sensuously, as Patti's and infinitely more soulful; a skill for acting realistically which amounted to genius, often making one forget the superlative beauty of her voice; and the supreme gift of magnetism." Henry Edward Krehbiel, his rival on the Tribune, accorded her "the most sensational triumph ever achieved by any opera or singer." In Europe it was the same. She sang for the Tsar, for the Sultan...