Word: peps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kane's credit let us repeat that he was "delighted to see the pep and enthusiasm of both the graduates and undergraduates". That is what the graduates want: they are a part of Harvard University and want recognition of the fact. It is absurd and unfair to say that his remark was "tactful", for that is not the spirit in which it was intended. He meant is as he stated it--a truth, which if only recognized by others, would clear the air, dispelling clouds of suspicion and dislike on the part of the undergraduates, and claiming for a more...
...ability of the Harvard cheering sections was proved Saturday. Volume and "pep" were there. Why not use them to better advantage...
...adapting life to the stage and not the stage to life. Nor are Kistmaecker and the adaptor--Paul Kester--any exceptions to the rule: for while the dialogue is occasionally interesting, the plot is hopelessly stereotyped. Thus such lines as, "Pan--that gay little goatlegged god with so much pep"; "The poet who sent me a song written on asbestos", and "This is not dancing--it's osteopathy", received the laughs they merited. But when at the close of the second act the outraged wife turned on the "other woman" with a dagger, and is only diverted from her highly...
...their nerves and their muscles, and enter the game of life trained to knock out "home runs" in their chosen callings? The superman, whether in baseball, statemanship or industry, is only the average man plus a little additional efficiency, both mental and physical, a little more will-power and "pep". Boston Evening Transcript
...Modern and Beacon this week, the feature picture is "Fatty" Arbuckle in "The Travelling Salesman", a comedy done in the usual Arbuckle style, but lacking the customary amount of laugh-producing "pep." Perhaps the cause of this can be found in the fact that the picture, instead of being written for Mr. Arbuckle, was adapted from a stage play. In the case of a comedian whose humor is so peculiarly distinct in its character as is Mr. Arbuckle's, such a procedure has its difficulties, since the comedian must adapt himself to the play, rather than the play to himself...