Word: whit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", which has been played to death by dance orchestras everywhere, seems new and different when accompanying the clockwork manoeuvers of the pipe-clayed actors. Balieff, of course, is inimitable; no one could rob his "apparition on the stage", as he says, of one whit of its originality or its unique humor. One is reconciled to the end of each scene only by the knowledge that this master comedian will reappear for one of his nonpareil curtain-talks, and when he actually joins the unspeakable "Russian Vocal Quartet" for a few flourishes, he raises the roof...
...special series of student affairs takes up the question of the University War Memorial from the student point of view, and advocates a gymnasium in preference to a chapel or a purely ornamental memorial. A special feature of the number is "The Pink Pitten", a Christmas sketch by Ter Whit Willaby...
This modern organization of Don Quixotes has discarded armor for pillowcases without losing a whit of real mediaeval spirit. They trudge today in the footsteps of the noble Dou--but all in secret and mystery. In its own words the Ku Klux Klan is "a secret and militant organization". Whenever possible its true name is kept silent in the presence of those unfortunate enough not to be members. In proselyting, both in the University and elsewhere, it is attractively garbed as "an organization of one hundred percent Americans", with the reservation that they be, "native born citizens of the United...
However, in his "Extracts from the Poetry of Chi Lao", Mr. Whitman challenges achievement. These are Whit manifestly not Chinese: but they are the stuff of poetry. Mr. R. C. Rogers in his "Sonnet" fingers an incoherent loveliness. The octave speaks of "chords that bind", an unfortunate ambiguity; the sestet hovers momentaly on the threshold of beauty; but the poem as a whole is tenuous and inarticulate. The "Winter Night's Spell" of Mr. Best plucks an old lute. We cannot help wishing there were more lines like these...
...propaganda for his release, twenty-five celebrated literary men have contributed to a volume in his honor. When all is said and done, we usually consider creative thinkers best qualified to judge human motives. These writers range in variety from the undoubted Americanism of Percy McKaye and James Whit comb Riley to men of the fame of Barbusse and Wells. Again, about a million American citizens thought enough of him to vote for him for the highest office in their gift. Now we reach a question of Americanism. Personally, my Americanism is of such a kind that I prefer...