Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...celebrate the marriage, Corbineli arranges a farce in which Genevote and Charlot take the parts of two young lovers, and Granger acts the relentless father. In the course of the play Granger is induced to sign a supposedly sham contract, which is eventually proved to be a genuine contract of marriage between the two young people. The play ends with the happiness of the lovers and the discomfiture of the doting Granger...
...cannot see the use of such relentless severity. College is not the place for such discipline, if that is what is desired. A man is supposed to have got that before. Every man forgets at times, and that the penalty for such a little slip should be to deprive him of the most valued associations of his college life seems harsh and unjust. Of course it will be said that such valued associations should be better cared for. I can only say that a man's memory, especially when he is at all busy does not always retain facts with...