Word: skits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...McCormick's story, which struggles from time to time with a dialect only half digested from "The Tragedy of Nan," suffers less on that account than one might imagine. The last page has a genuine, if uncanny, power. Mr. Jacobs's dialogue, which is not melodrama, is an amusing skit on the political honor of our Mexican neighbors...
...course there are interpolations, but they are so few that they do not slow up the movement, and they are well worth doing. Perkins' accounts of baseball from the British and Italian points of view is almost Caseyan, and the society comedy skit and the movies act are both entertaining...
...number concludes with some readable book-reviews and a musical skit. GEORGE E. WESTON...
...less mediocre class. The clever phrasing of the editorial on the abandonment of hat-bands ought to assist in impressing upon the mind of the College the necessity of democratic reform. The naturalness of Mr. Viet's criticism of Jules Verne is refreshing; and at the end of his skit, "Pat Gallagher's Hundred Dollar Bill," he employs the method of suggestion with good result, because he has not run it into the ground in the earlier part of the composition. Mr. Nickerson's "Defence of Musical Comedy" is commendable both in matter and expression. There is a good deal...