Word: pleasingness
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All of this is like strong medicine, helpful and effective; but dangerous if swallowed blindly without careful reading of the instructions. The ideal college man of these analyses is a man of clay, moulded by heredity and environment. Of necessity he is a type, not an individual, and he has...
To those who would like to see the University become more and more a place for individual thought and work, the announcement that the Modern Language Conference has decided to admit undergraduates to membership is a pleasing one. It follows along the lines of confidence in the undergraduate marked out...
Maria Lo presents "Porcelains" (living tableaux) excellently. General Pisano (his "Company" being a trimly uniformed lady who left her nerves at the hotel) is happily a crack rifle shot. Marie Stoddard burlesques Marillyn Miller well. Belle Story, a Hippodrome version of Galli-Curci (with mockery on the flute) registered more...
It has been said, that Mr. McFee writes about the sea. This is really a very incomplete estimate of his range, for he wanders about, the world of men and geography quite indiscriminately, drawing upon all varieties of material for his subjects. Now an Assyrian restaurant proprietor seizes his attention...
In view of the prevalent tendency to farce these old plays wherever possible it was pleasing to find that Mr. Jewett had to some little extent got away from the beaten path and induced his actors to play the piece as high comedy, where for the most part it properly...