Word: claptrap
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jonson, Shakespeare, etc. By appreciating them, you can render them better than those who cannot appreciate them. If you were to begin to play say farce comedy for your own amusement and the amusement of the audience, that would not be study, it would be a case of claptrap. That I should think would be a very dangerous thing for students to begin on. They can indulge in that after a few years when they become old and respectable. In their studies they would better confine themselves to those plays that have good literary merit...
...College House.HOLLIS STREET THEATRE. - Beginning tonight, "The Girl I Left Behind Me' will be the attraction at the Hollis Street Theatre. It is seldom that so thrilling a play is seen on the stage, and yet it is absolutely free from claptrap and melodramatic effort. Those who saw it at the Columbia last year will remember the intense enthusiasm that is always aroused by the arrival of the cavalry to rescue the beleaguered party in the stockade, and how this feat was sccomplished without the dring of a gun. The attack of the Indians could be plainly heard...