Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Congo was one of the few young females in the U. S. who believed in the serious salon. Dr. Robert Mearns Yerkes, famed Yale psychologist, visited her in 1926; gave her many intelligence tests; was impressed by her clarity of thought, her apparent willingness to cooperate. Other scientists were equally interested. A year and a half ago, Dr. Adolph Hans Schultz, anatomist of Johns Hopkins University, wrote to Dexter Fellowes of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, asking for Miss Congo's body when she died. Life then seemed just beginning for the growing gorilla girl. She lived...
...Waltz of the Dogs is indeed produced according to the author's recipe. Its somewhat antiquated use of soliloquy and its droning tragedy, unencumbered by contemporary fashions in plot construction, make it a sour entertainment for play-goers drilled in a less difficult tradition. Its sadness is serious and harsh and not the relaxative kind old women...
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...father, Colyumist Hope of the New York Herald-Tribune. Though his verse falls far short of Lewis Carroll's the narrative (packed as it is with social & political quips, flagrant puns and rare etymology) does credit to the English mathematician, and surpasses in satire more serious-minded modern U. S. Jeremiads. So also Rea Irvin's illustrations, which are excellently done...
...catcher, known to teammates and fans as Frankie and Johnnie, have always been as close as the 60 feet between the plate and the box permitted, but a disagreement over a disputed passage in the poems of T. S. Eliot '10 has led, it is reported to a serious personal breach...