Word: swinish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Briefly the comedy shows the effect upon the varied persons of Reinhartz, Pa., of the coming of the superficially absurd, yet clear seeing, deep feeling Susan. She marries Dreary, the swinish skinflint, to help the much-set-upon daughter, Barnabetta. Dreary kindly dies between the acts--having become an insurmountable obstacle in the pursuit of happiness--the step-mother reforms her eccentricities, the daughter casts aside her drudge's guise and blossoms as an Emerson-reading flower of Boston schooling, and in the thrill of the Governor's presence and a lover's kiss the play ends...