Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lupien is credited with a .319 batting mark for poling out 99 base hits in 310 official trips to the plate. He participated in 83 games and scored 47 runs. His total base-hit figure was 134, consisting of 11 triples, 13 doubles, and 110 singles. As usual, his play in the field was well-nigh flawless...
Lupien, in jumping from Soldiers Field to Scranton in the Class A Eastern loop, took a man sized leap, and this makes the success of his season's play all the more pleasing to his Fenway Park bosses...
...range of interest of the essays which make up this book is as great as the range of the plays themselves, whose subject is after all the whole world. One of the finest is the treatment of "The Tempest," of which its author says, "'The Tempest' does bind up in final form a host of themes with which its author has been concerned." What the play does for the Shakespearean canon, this essay does for the book which it brings to a lovely and harmonious close...
...difficult to define precisely the unique excellence of this book. It is primarily a collection of brief essays about the plays and poems, essays which never exceed fifteen pages in length. Mr. Van Doren deliberately excludes considerations of Shakespeare biography, Elizabethan drama and the like; the center of his preoccupation is always the peculiar interest of each play...
...Yardlings play host to a strong Andover team on the Business School Field at 2:30 also. The Freshmen have split their first two engagements, winning from Governor Dummer and losing to Exeter...