Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WILD DUCK - Ibsen made to look alive by sheer force of acting...
According to the Princetonian, the Tiger sextet has been improving with every game, and is by no means the underdog for tonight's game which hockey followers seek to make it. For sheer aggressiveness, the Princeton play has not been surpassed by a college team in the Arena this winter, and if the Nassan skaters can match the speed of their Crimson rivals tonight, the verdict may easily swing either way. HARVARD PRINCETON Austin l.w. r.w. Wilkinson Hodder c. c. Davis Beals r.w. l.w. Stout Howard l.d. r.d. Trenholm Chase r.d. l.d. Taylor Cumings g. g. Pepper
...Clive, as Androcles, had an opportunity to prove his tremendous capacity for character interpretation, which he had modestly foregone hitherto this season. Between the two scenes of sheer fooling, comes a difficult serious scene of Thesis and argument between Layinia and the Captain of the Guard, presenting the conflict between the spiritual and the temporal in long speeches which taxed Miss Standing and Mr. Mowbray to the utmost. Their handling of the situation was altogether commendable...
Thus embellished, the bull is now ready for the espada, or matador; the swordsman, the killer, the hero of the day. It is to this final role that the apprentice aspires. Sometimes, through sheer braggadocio, the merest man may spring to fame overnight by leaping down into an arena if some emergency should arise at this crucial juncture of a fight. That is seldom seen, however...
...Those of the educated Americans who can afford to travel and out of sheer curiosity go to India, should arrange to give some of their time in offering short courses of free lectures in the field of their special interest. These lectures could be easily arranged with the help of Indian schools and colleges...