Word: sham
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...voice, was well acted by H. S. Deming '05, who put great feeling into his gestures and expression. P. T. Christie '07 showed good adaptability in changing suddenly from the silent woman to the garrulous shrew. A very amusing version of the minor part of Cutbeard, barber and sham lawyer, was rendered by F. B. Eaves...
...second act, which takes place on the Hamburg-American dock in Boston, the Tripps are returning home, followed by Coldstream and the sham Count, who is unsuccessfully seeking to marry Jessie. The two naval officers met the party at Coldstream, Bowser and Storm propose at the same time and are accepted by their respective ladies. Some of the grotesque and humorous aspects of the United States customs and the Boston police are brought out in the characters of Inspector Baggs and Policeman Flynn. The play closes with the arrest of the Counterfeiter...
...plot in the main is as follows: Lovewit, after the death of his wife, retires to the country, leaving his house in the care of Jeremy, his servant. Jeremy forms a partnership with Subtle, a sham alchemist, and setting up furnaces and apparatus in Lovewit's house, they prepare to conjure money from the credulous. Disguised as Captain Face, Jeremy lures in customers, and then as the grimy servant of the Alchemist, assists in gulling the victims. The play represents a day's business, one customer following another. Dapper wants a "familiar" to make him win at cards. Drugger comes...
...first article particularly the "Ph.D. Octopus," by William James, strikes one as being vital and altogether human. The statement that only a man of evident native power is now allowed to receive the degree, and that for a college to appoint instructors only with such qualifications is snobbery and sham, seem hardly consistent. Nevertheless the main point of the article--an appeal to value more the individuality of a man and his abilities than parchment he may possess--appeals to anyone's sentiment and sense--and is advanced with straightforward convincing earnestness...
...insight into the characters of men; but still he was merely a writer with no definite purpose, and from among the various branches of literature had not finally chosen the kind of writing which he was to make peculiarly his own. Truth in writing, that power that scorns the sham and pictures the real, Thackeray had, and a fund of brilliant humor also. He had lacked the personal and distinctive individuality that was needed to make him prominent and now for the first time, by a serious realization of his own powers, he was to achieve this...