Word: comically
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...comic brother in his own droll way hit the nail on the head several times: we say that we are going home to rest and work. We are hypocrites. We know that we are going home to have a Christmas vacation, and that does not even mean rest. Work and worry and rest are foreign to this season. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
...Marguerite Boudoin, the sentimental wife of the practical Gaston, was the feature of the performance. Mme. Baldensperger played her part with a fine artistic reserve which was characteristically French. Miss Fogler as the younger sister, was charming and not too effusive and Mme. Darmand took advantage of the comic elements in the role of Choice, "fat and forty," but still a devotee of romance. R. D. Skinner '15 was effective as the jealous husband, although his expressions at times bespoke rather those of the villain of melodrama. M. Darmand was a masterly Claude Barrois, thoroughly finished in his action...
...while sympathizing as individuals with the editors of the Cornell Widow, who were dismissed from their university for some editorial or pictorial indiscretions in connection with a recent issue of that publication, cannot but approve the general idea of he Faculty's censoring that class of college magazine. College comic papers must be "cabined, cribbed, confined"; they must be bridled and bitted; they must be curbed, carped (obs.) and castigated; otherwise they tend to bubble over. The CRIMSON approves the Cornell policy heartily and looks with glee to the day when it will have a local application...
...yields to as he never will again. The Monthly endures because it expresses the best that is in the heart of man in his most idealistic, unfettered period, because the spirit that gives it life is the spirit of youth itself. The undergraduate, intent on baseball and comic opera, sighs that the Monthly is remote. It is he who is remote--from his own inner self...
...comic operas offer as pretentious a plot as does "The Stymie" and one is spared the usual experience of sitting through much unrelated dialogue in the hope that relief will appear in the form of another song. In fact, the play contains approximately half the customary number of musical selections, and the appeal to attention is frankly on the side of the story, with what amounts to incidental numbers, both songs, and dances, introduced for the sake of variety. The chorus of "Copper Moon" would have gained in effectiveness had it been sung "off stage"; and in several cases...