Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this would make the number of meals to be served more difficult to estimate, a man might be asked to notify the dining-room in general when he is bringing a guest...
...Club has shifted to the most polite drawing-room atmosphere of proper England. Of course, A. A. Milne is much too successful in juvenile writing to let slip an opportunity like the Barrie-Kipling dream scene in which the appearance of a Nite, a Squier, and a Buteus Maiden would do any child's heart good. The adult portions of the play are composed of slightly bored dialogue in Act I, a not too effective suggestion of strain in the first scene of Act III, and, in the final scene, a modicum of action that moves to the weak-kneed...
With this sort of material the Club did very acceptably. It would be quibbing to find fault with the work of Mr. Wallstein, whose characterization of a prosperous M. P. who loses for a day his carefully attained sense of value, is very finely done. Miss Hill and Miss Crocker, in the leading feminine roles, have little acting to do, but do it gracefully. Mr. Jackson and Mr. Joyce portray satisfactorily the spineless characters they represent; Mr. Meyer is more successful, in a more positive part...
...room of a political and unliterary owner. The dream scene in Act II is presented in a properly confused manner, and the nook mid sunny spots of greenery, where the Rt. Hon. Selby Mannock grows romantic, beyond doubt is the sort of place where that sort of man would do precisely that...
Although Mr. Bingham's statement Monday announcing the appointment of Charles J. Whiteside to the Harvard crew coaching staff deliberately omitted mention of the exact post Mr. Whiteside would hold upon his arrival in Cambridge, dispatches from Syracuse indicate that he is coming under the definite understanding that he is to be head coach. Before he actually takes up his duties as chief rowing mentor, however, it is to be hoped that a definite understanding will be reached on the inter-relation of the crew candidates, the head coach his assistants, Mr. Bingham, and the various groups of alumni...