Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unapproachability inconsistent with every-day use. Nothing could be more unfortunate, and efforts should be made at the outset to reduce all possibility of such a situation to a minimum. For it is by the general interest and support of the student body that the success of such a thing as a poetry reading room is to be judged...
Considering that "This Thing Called Love" consists of three acts and not of just one, it sums up to a rather low score. Did it consist of but the second act, it would be admirable fare. For this is sparkling, light, touched with wisdom. It has all the attributes of good comedy writing. Unfortunately, there are also from Mr. Burke's pen two additional acts, sandwiching this good one. As in all sandwiches, the meet is in the middle...
...title of the play is an excellent indication of the contents. In an attempted casualness Mr. Burke bandies words between his characters, these words having to do with the marital state and its attendant pitfalls. Somehow, the only relevant thing we can think of to sum the matter up is that "Young Love" was a much better piece. It was far less forced in its banter, had considerably more of a point, and had two good acts out of three instead of a mere...
...view of the disclosures of the political activities of the national light and power interests in other states, we have a right to inquire whether the same thing is going on here...
...sing anything except their own anthem, "Youth! Youth! Springtime of Beauty!" The umpire of the match, an Englishman, disqualified two Italians for roughness. Broken lanyards prevented the hoisting of the Italian flag. The Austrian bandmaster had no Fascist sheet music, supposed that the Italian royal anthem was the correct thing to play...