Word: woefulness
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...Club previously planned this year to revive one of its former productions, either "Proserpina", produced in 1895, or "Branglebunk--A Weary Wanderer's Woeful Wooing" of 1896, but these were judged too difficult for the present facilities of the Club...
...reason for the change was that the two operettas under consideration "Proserpina", produced in 1895 and "Branglebunk--A Weary Wanderers Woeful Wooing" of 1896, were judged too difficult for the present facilities of the club...
...instructions will be doled out to the Freshmen showing the efficacy of dodging the singles that bask beneath the arches. How to break a rudder rope and not get it tangled with the bow, how to get into a shell after a crew has pushed off, without adopting the woeful methods of Buster Keaton, and how to steer a course nor'nor' east by nor' through the murky haze of the basin will be considered in every detail. The hardest feat to master, that of coxing two miles in a tight race and keeping the remnants of vocal cords...
...play to be revived will be either "Proserpina" the show of 1895, written by Winthrop Ames '95 with music by D. G. Mason '95, or the 1896 play, entitled "Branglebrunk--a Weary Wanderer's Woeful Wooing," by R. M. Townsend '96 and F. B. Whittemore '96, with music by J. A. Carpenter...
ARACHNE-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2.25). Slangy conversation between classic Greeks suggests Erskine; muses conversant with the Charleston recall various recent fantasies; and the wilful woman who (almost) came to woeful end has been heard of before. She would have her profession, and she did excel at it, so the gods had to interfere and deposit her in the domesticating arms of her lover, soon husband and five times father. Bromide, he had said "No woman ever made anything more beautiful than a complete and perfect baby," but Arachne swore she preferred making the complete and perfect web of brilliant silks...