Word: profitless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Miss Alice Comes Out." It is unfortunate that here the writer has allowed cleverness to take the place of common sense; the lovers discuss idealism with an ingenuity that is hopelessly literary. Mr. Britten discusses the charm of the sea, his point apparently being that such discussion is entirely profitless to anyone. Mr. Sheehan, in a sort of religious monodrama of three pages, sets forth cleverly the shortcomings of the monastic life. The rest of the verse is of the usual undergraduate variety; for the most part it consists in the rather ingenious phrasing of things which might nearly...