Word: playing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sing or play any instrument well and would be willing to take part in the entertainment to be held in Smith Halls Common Room on the afternoon of the jubilee are asked to hand in their names to T. S. Lamont, Standish C 23, as soon as possible...
...Lazarus and I apparently agreed that the present product of the American schools and colleges is unsatisfactory; in what respects and to what extent this is so, we seem to differ. Let us examine the nature of the evil. What "kind of men have we among those who play an important part in public affairs? We have business men who find it necessary, in order to call forth the most efficient exercise of their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public...
...concert includes three numbers from the best period of Chamber Music. Quartets by Beethoven and Haydn will be rendered by the Letz Quartet, which will also play with Mr. Whiting in the final numbers on the program a quintet by Robert Schumann for piano and strings. This work ranks with that of Cesare Franck as the most beautiful quintet since Beethoven. The Haydn Quartet is marked by its simplicity and nobility of style...
...American army officer can outwit a German military command, gain triumph for his country and win the best girl on earth--in a play. If our dramatists were only directing intelligence operations behind the Teuton lines this week we might expect to have those 70 Prussian army divisions outflanked and slaughtered by Easter and the war ended by the Ides of April...
...triteness of the plot did not spoil this play, the unplausibility surely would. The American girl, in a moderately daring boudoir scene, causes the German colonel's death. The next minute the American officer--a captive in the chateau--enshrouds the German lieutenant-colonel in his khaki coat and has the firing squad mistakenly shoot him dead. Then the American contingent goes and nails the German general for good measure. Being fed up on such glorious killings, the auditor might expect to see Von Hindenburg shot through the heart for the final curtain, but the authors have not got that...