Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were circulated to the effect that the new group was about to conduct a systematic investigation of certain enigmatical obsessions prevalent in the Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology was sloughed out of Emerson Hall and quartered upon the most remote plot of land owned by the University. It was obvious that this geographical dissociation prohibited the possibility of a close analysis of faculty behaviour...
Based on the greediness of mankind, the plot of the play is woven about a rich man's bequest to a group of avaricious relatives, and provides many amusing and interesting situations. The Liberal Club has bought out the house for the second Boston performance of this play and is now selling tickets at the Harvard Cooperative Society with no advance in prices...
...plot is unconvincing enough to form the basis of any musical comedy, and, as a matter of fact, may well have served as such at one time or another, but then this isn't a musical comedy. There is some music, to be sure, furnished, according to the program, by Ben Bernie's Seville Orchestra (not to be confused with his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra). It isn't very tuneful but affords an opportunity for some good xylophoning...
...does seem as if the earth were the victim of a kind of heavenly conspiracy to make its crust crawl. Professor Stetson says that perhaps the stars, those eternal symbols of constancy, may be in the plot, too, allowing their rays to be deflected by an atmospheric tidal wave caused by the moon. Shifts in the axis of the earth, and tides in its crust are other possibilities, the scientists assure us, just like that...
...wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays was mainly brought about by Director Benjamin Christensen who gave a trite plot (heirs looking for money in a millionaire's mansion) better treatment than it deserved...