Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy Terror. John Golden is chiefly famous for clean plays-a fame in no small measure achieved by his own insistent advertising of the fact. Therefore the sharp knuckles of profanity protruding from the hairy fist of his first play this autumn caused comment. The profanity was not, it is true, intense. But remember the crooks in Turn to the Right and the apaches in Seoenfh Heaven. They never said damn or hell...
There is something about poverty, at least about poverty as one sees it on the stage, which intensifies personality, throwing into sharp relief often dangerously year to exaggerating each peculiarity of character. This, of course, is meat and drink to the playwright. In "Seventh Heaven", Austin Strong took a handful of such individuals and into the story of their lives injected humor, tradedy, more than a little pathos, a bit of melodrama, and out of it all produced an immensely effective comedy...
...subjects for their lord? It was a ticklish moment. Steel-nerved, the smiling royalties awaited what was to come. Then suddenly their people knelt and poured forth the ancient greeting of Montenegrin subjects to a Montenegrin King: "Lo, thou art our heavenly sun, our wish, our happiness and our sharp sword...
Arthur Bernhart L2, W. A. Bilikam Jr. L3, J. F. Blair L2, D. L. Dickson '27, R. S. Fanning L3, H. E. Foley GL, A. G. King '26, E. J. Metzdorf '26, H. P. Sharp L1, C. B. Strayer B1, W. A. Whitfield L2, and Barrett Williams...
When he resigned from Maine last July, his criticism of the support given the university by the state was sharp and to the point. In accepting the new position, he felt that the opportunities for educational reform were far greater than at Maine, as the University of Michigan is much larger in numbers and in facilities...