Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...whole cast failed to give the impression that the characters were clever when their lines were clever. The auditor could not forget that it is the author who has the wit. By the time the Cambridge rehearsals are over, Boston might attend a more polished production...
...theme, there is the inside dope, the ultimate reassurance of the defeatists, which is given a considerable cred- ence among Harvard men of all classifications, and has it that the acceptance of the somewhat complicated social and curricular implications of the house plan is merely the device of that clever old fox, Prexy Lowell, to secure a number of new and costly physical units for the university by accepting them as part of an apparently far-reaching educational experiment, the less concrete aspects of which can easily be discarded with the passing of time, leaving only the architectural assets...
...doesn't make much difference. It is a little difficult to place her as a simple New York stenographer during her first few days in Paris. She looked and acted as though she were born there. The dialogue as spoken by Miss Bennett is polished and, at times satirically clever, but McKenna is a bit ponderous over some of his best lines...
...Grace explained to his mystified audience that the invention is known as the "scrambled speech" method of telephony recently developed by the clever, hardworking scientists of Bell Telephone Laboratories. The invention consists of two complicated pieces of apparatus. One, located at the transmitting end, inverts ordinary speech in much the same way that a camera lens sets the image of an object on its head. Low tones become high squeaks, high pitches turn into low grunts. Tones are changed in frequency, resulting in a language which no eaves- dropper could understand. At the receiving end of the radio telephone...
...prurient prudishness and primitive purity. Yvette is the younger of two daughters of an English parson. Her mother had run away with another man, is no longer mentioned. Yvette's grandmother has taken her daughter-in-law's place in the household. "She was one of those physically vulgar, clever old bodies who had got her own way all her life by buttering the weaknesses of her men-folk." Yvette hates her grandmother, is discontented with her parochial life, the parochial young men who court her. One day she happens on a gypsy camp, meets a gypsy who is different...