Word: spiritless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard actually had a 2 to 0 lead in the first period before Northeastern scored four straight goals to take command of the game. After seven minutes of spiritless play, the Crimson opened the scoring when Myles Huntington skated down the left side and scored on a pipe shot...
...McBride's, the Oxford Grill, Club 100, and other Square emporiums, bouncers and bosses have enjoined the chanters to silence their serenading At last abandoning their attempts at mixing beer and barbershop, the Dunces settled in spiritless Hazen's lunch counter...
Lesser parts are competently, though not brilliantly performed. James Monks, of "The Eve of Saint Mark," does the best job of the minor players as Cassio, another victim of Iago's treachery. Uta Hagen is a very frail and very dainty, but also a very spiritless Desdemona. Margaret Webster, who directed the present revival, plays Emilia, Iago's wife, completely straight. She adds not one touch of her own which would let the audience know whether she is working for or against her villainous mate...
Viewing all objects unremittingly In disconnection dead and spiritless; And still dividing, and dividing still, Break down all grandeur...
Work and Play seems as exhausted as France. The conflicts are spiritless, the dialogues read like editorials, the goings-on of all the characters, with no one of whom the reader feels akin, seem meaningless. The pathos of the novel is extraneous. It lies in the reader's dark foreknowledge of what was so soon to happen to this France that Remains describes. All these picnics, love affairs, speeches, quarrels, schemes, crimes, recollections, arguments about the future, projects for preventing war-this, Romains seems to say, was he best that French intelligence was doing. Few of the actions were...