Word: yea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maurice Hewlett (Jan. 22, 1861), English novelist, poet, critic. The Forest Lovers, a medieval romance published in 1898, established Hewlett's reputation in a field in which, despite the wave of imitation that followed its success, he still remains among the most eminent. Other medieval novels include Richard Yea-and-Nay, The Song of Renny and The Queen's Quair, which deals with Mary, Queen of Scots...
Died. Maurice Hewlett, 62, novelist, authority on heraldry, of pneumonia, at Broadchalke, Salisbury, England. Among his famous books are The Forest Lovers, Richard Yea-and-Nay, The Queen's Quair...
...found that this year's freshman-sophomore picture war "lends color to the impression that the fight is a nuisance anyway, and had best be abolished". Such a condition is criticised by a college graduate who recalls in a letter to a Philadelphia paper the "good old days" when "Yea, Rowbottom" at Pennsylvania and "Reinhardt" at Harvard were live traditions...
...studied technique, and her scintillating costumes, but she brought, no feeling of definite characterization, no gripping conviction of flesh and blood and human sensibilities. To one who had seen her in the two previous productions, she was again Mlle. Sorel, the Doucet-costumed, the brilliant technician, the vivid personality, yea, even "the magnificent", but not the sincere worker in the art of portraying character. One begins to suspect, in fact, that Mademoiselle has a very clever press agent...
...expect three series of unrestrained expression. For with undergraduate audience freed from the cheks of hide-bound Universities with speckers dellyered from the threat of refutation, by facts, and with out even two men representing , as didout even two men representating, an did President Eliot and Dean Bridge last yea the broad-minded convervative element, we can be sure that the conferences will enjoy an even more Intoxicating stimulant of hypothesis, hyssteria and self-glrification than at the above mentioned Cambridge convention...