Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what justification there is for the latter sending a good man into adversity without a proper tragic flaw in his character. Scraft remains loyal to an ill-chosen wife who possesses no lure whatever for him. Finally his virtue engenders a slow hatred and we are permitted to watch him approach destruction. The tragedy is off the stage; the audience is left without catharsis and in dismay at the outcome. Mr. LaFarge happily prefers to prefers to preserve to us a good man and rescues him from the lure of piracy through the good offices of Sentimental Jack, Captain...
Despite wretched support from the bleachers, the University baseball team ha, won seven of its eight preliminary games. Much of this meager backing has come from members of various athletic squads who watch the games after their own practice; and from other groups who have been conspicuous for their unfailing attendance. To these faithful few the inadequacy of the cheering has been only too apparent: the student body as a whole has shown utter indifference...
...held during the last few days under the personal supervision of Mr. Griffith, fitted nicely with the progress of the story; at no time was it obtrusive, yet at all times it added to the interoperation of the various characters, and so made the picture even more enjoyable to watch...
...publication--"The Aristocrat." To the rest of us, such a form of pleasure may seem to be a rather expensive one; but then, we are not budding geniuses or embryo laureates who will go to any lengths in search of some means of "self-expression". The bourgeoisie can only watch and wonder...
...Mussey former editor of "The Nation" and now in the "League Against Militarism", spoke on "Making Congress Service the People". He said that it was the aim of the League Against Militarism" to keep watch...