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Word: takings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...younger generation of Icelandic dramatists largely to this stern tragedy of the North, which has been received so favorably in England, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Sweden. The success of the play abroad and the strong recommendation of the Scandinavian-American Foundation has prompted the Workshop to take advantage of this opportunity to develop the more sombre and serious technique of the drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 47 WORKSHOP PLAY TONIGHT | 1/26/1917 | See Source »

...that Wisconsin's chances had been injured by the fact of some of Withington's assistants running off each Saturday evening to play Sunday football with professional teams at Captain and elsewhere. If present reports develop into facts it would be well for our university and college authorities to take some radical stand against the innovation. It is not clear what they could do to protect their young men from the pernicious influences; but as least they could wipe out a feeding ground for the professional sport by abolishing the game altogether...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N. Y. CRITIC CONDEMNS PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL | 1/25/1917 | See Source »

...distinctly modern function, for our dogmatic critic of today, nursed on the latest of the old diets, will experience a strange sensation in attempting to pass judgment on a series of reels, no matter what their quality. "The Birth of a Nation," however, made us sit up and take notice, and from its appearance on, we have been made to realize that great things were being done in this field of popular pantomime. "A Daughter of the Gods," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, is evidently a production trying to equal the record set by D. W. Griffith, but William...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 1/25/1917 | See Source »

...other nautical accomplishments are those of a sea-artist--surely such a thing exists. But Miss Kellermann, with all her marine art, cannot save the play from dragging, and it is all because the thread of narrative becomes so unravelled after the first few minutes that it would take Sherlock Holmes himself to comprehend exactly all that is going on. For those events which do seem perfectly consistent to us are scenic rather than dramatic, and if "A Daughter of the Gods" is intended to be merely spectacular, why introduce so many touches of sentimentality? It is true the "leaders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 1/25/1917 | See Source »

...because they raised the question of what would be done with "the 200,000 who would refuse to obey such a law (as the Chamberlain bill) if passed." (Inasmuch as the country today contains well over 100,000 of the Society of Friends alone whose faith forbids them to take up arms it is difficult to see how this estimate of fact was either "socialistic or even anarchistic"). But "pacifists" such anti-conscriptionists doubtless are; "unpatriotic" they will also probably be termed, while it is not unlikely that distinguished authority will apply the opprobrious but hitherto unexplained adjective 'professional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collegians For Compulsory Service. | 1/24/1917 | See Source »

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