Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...imperfect, and its lines tend to monotony; yet it is impressive in its dignity. His sonnet "Umbra Naturae" again shows either carelessness or radical doctrine as to versification: it begins with a nine-syllables verse (unless we give two syllables to "here"), and ends with what looks like a rough Alexandrine, but may be a badly accented pentameter with two trisyllabic feet...
Delicate and dainty pantomimie will be a decided novelty for a great many of us, for what dumb shows we have seen are of the slap-stick, rough and tumble type which fill our vaudeville houses. Here, however, is a play in which a singular art has been carried to its height. We never miss the speaking, for we are absorbed in the delightfully foolish little plot and amazed at the grace of the whole thing. Pierrot's home and phrynette's boudoir furnish two admirable settings for an entire evolution of emotions and from nonsense to a tinge...
...this type of rigging when coaching the Argonaut Club of Canada. At present it is planned to let the oarsmen have two weeks practice on the Delaware before leaving for the final bit of training at Poughkeepsie. In this way Wright believes he will accustom the men to rough water. At Pennsylvania they attribute the poor showing of the Quaker crew to the fact that it encountered rough water during the intercollegiate regatta...
...Canary Cottage," which opened this week at the Park Square, is another of Oliver Morosco's clever, frank, and somewhat unrefined musical farces. Like "So Long Letty," which was here a short time ago, this piece treats of western life in the rough, and like it, was produced first on the Pacific coast and then brought here. That it contains a wealth of vulgar humor there is no denying; but the vulgarity, or frankness as it might better be called, is introduced as the means rather than...
...wanted of any age between 20 and 50 who will willingly put themselves under the leadership of the experienced "chefs desections," Who are willing to rough it somewhat, and who may have arduous and monotonous weeks to go through without the excitement of the rare periods of severe attack or defence to enliven the work with its attendant excitement. France needs you and needs you now. We are doing far too small a work. We ought to be covering the whole French Sanitary Service...