Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitations sent out three weeks ago; acceptances mean tickets, but which tickets? pink, blue, red, white, striped, expensive, less so, or rain checks? And by the way, his uncle's class expects to picnic merrily in his rooms the day after the party and the furniture is required to vanish somehow before 9 A. M. And of course at a late hour comes an appeal from an unexpected friend of the family; she usually wants a nice quiet room near the Campus, not a boarding house; nor too expensive, where she can get her meals comfortably. The Juniors...
...find many new "lapses" for their pens--the first example of which is hereby offered for consideration by an anonymous Gascoigne. While as for the smoker--he who peers out so genially from multitudinous advertisements--imagination falters in the effort to prophecy his future. Will the joys of smoking vanish irretrievably with the coming of the knowledge that smoking is undoubtedly beneficial? So perverse is human nature that such a thought is not beyond the limits of sense. The "short stem that fumes beneath the nose"--will it cease to be a companion, eulogized in song and story, and become...
...these few reservations are felt only when reading the play. When acted, they all vanish in the grace of the witty, tender dialogue, which is written with perfect tact, without the least vulgarity or bad taste, and which succeeds in giving to everything, no matter how far-fetched, the illusion of reality...
...these difficulties are typical of the kind always volunteered by the doubting Thomases and the Godfrey Glooms. Once the theatre is established and has begun to build up a reputation, a great part of these difficulties will vanish, removing the only clouds from a field of limitless possibilities. There is no question of the welcome such theatre would receive from the theatrical profession. Actors of the Barrymore calibre who have been forced to make use of totally inadequate vehicles in the past few years, would get the long looked for opportunity to play in roles of their own choosing...
...half Coach Tolbert's players held the lead by a scant one point margin, only to have it vanish under a determined red and grey comeback early in the second session. The visitors' attack, led by the sensational Eager began to function with telling effect, and the gap between the two scores increased steadily till at mid-period the Engineers enjoyed a commanding advantage. At this point, with ten minutes to spare began a rally which put the two fives on an even basis by the end of the game. Four of the five minutes of the over-time period...