Word: real
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...From first to last the interest of the spectator is kept tense; and, whether one agrees or not with the premises and the conclusion of the mathematician-dramatist Echegaray, he is likely to feel, when the curtain finally drops, that he has witnessed the performance of a work of real artistic value. J. D. M. FORD...
There is but one way to amend the Constitution, or even to real, sooer consideration of the subject of amendment, and that is through the action of State Legislatures, moving upon the Congress for a Constitutional Convention...
...making money, or of spending it. Naturally, their politics have fallen under the same head. Graft is not a product but a corrupter of politics. And as to the source and fountain head of civic virtue, or the lack of it--the people! Homes, which should make the real city--let the last Tenement House Commission speak...
...useless to refute the idea that the actor's calling offers more temptations to loafers than any other profession. But it is equally fallacious to think that the actor's life is one sequence of success. There exists in this art the same discouragement known to all professions. The real cause of all the unpleasant publicity concerning the actor and his private life lies not so much in what he may or may not have done but in the insatiable desire of journalism to cater to the public taste. The delusion which exists in many minds that the actors...
...more serious treatment, are worth while from all points of view. Nothing is more important in reforming abuses than well-directed and kindly ridicule. Of the verse, the "Ballade of Lost Editors," by W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez sC., is the best. It has unusual knowledge of values and a real poetic flavor. "Rain in the Night," by R. MacVeagh '10, has a strong, sane rhythm, reminiscent in parts of Kipling. "The Holly Tree," by H. Fairfield '10, is an attempt, in rather uneven verse, to give atmosphere to a place which for most of us has not even tradition. Taken...