Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shift in the Crimson front, with which Coach Winsor experimented in the Tech game, consists of Beals and Hodder exchanging places. The change has aroused some comment in sport circles, and is popularly explained by Beals frequent failure to score under opportune conditions. Supporters of this view point out that in Harvard's scheme the wing is the scoring position, and explain that it was only Beals' unusual ability that kept him in the first string when apparently ineffective at his post by the right boards. This theory loses force, however, when it is remembered that Hodder, the new right...
Shaw then saw fit to explain significances. He composed a ponderous epilogue bringing the characters together in a dream which drifted down the centuries. They settled the merits of martyrdom and all but settled the play. Possibly Shaw preferred to have his audience leave the theatre with wrinkled brow rather than glistening eye. Possibly he deliberately stepped on his climax because he is Shaw and defies the rules...
Hurricane. "Of Petrova, by Petrova, and for Petrova" might be summoned as a phrase to explain this curiously tragical mixture. The handsome Olga wrote it last year and played it for the first time last week. It is obviously an "actory" part, conceived by one more cunning in stage interpretation than in stage creation. Yet through it runs an uneven strain of fierce vitality. For the moments when this strain is uppermost the play is valuable...
...reaction of Paddy Mullins, manager of the Negro, was instantaneous. Said he: "It's all right for Dempsey to explain how he intends to dispose of Harry, but explaining and actual demonstration are two different things." Paddy added that he had been "refilling his fountain pen for four years" hoping that Jack Kearns (manager to Dempsey) would come to terms...
...Baldwin '24, chairman of the drive, will explain the detailed plans for solicitation to the collectors, and Mr. R. T. Rich, chairman of the Fund for the Eastern District of the United States will discuss the methods used in applying relief in Europe. In addition, Professor M. O. Hudson L. '10 of the Law School, Professor Ralph Harlow '08 of Smith College, and Mr. J. Henry Scattergood of Philadelphia will speak. The president of the Student Council, F. A. O. Schwarz, will preside...