Word: properness
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...like the American stage? It is superhumanly good - so good that it becomes unnatural. Remember, that a stage need not be unpleasantly realistic in order to be natural. All that is necessary is that you give place to the improper as well as to the proper. Take your women for instance; you write your plays as if there was no such thing on earth as a wicked woman, or that if there is, neither you nor your audience had ever met or heard of one. And so, instead of a handsome, charming, dazzling, fascinating creature, that bewitches with...
...little difficulty. Why not have the late breakfast table in the little side-room corresponding to the auditor's room? To be sure, this room is at present occupied, but there is no necessity of its being used regularly, as there are so many vacant tables in the hall proper. This arrangement would almost completely do away with the many objections to the late table as it is now conducted. There would be no dust, no noise, and no chairs piled on the table-cloth to be seen. Of course, we would miss the singing, which, to me at least...
...reflect no credit on the authorities. Of course there is the refuge of the college hospital, but that is not likely to be taken advantage of by any one who can avoid it, for many reasons. The reflections on our goodies contained in the article, we resent with proper indignation, as ignorant slanders. Their comeliness, cleanliness and industry is admired and applauded by all of us, especially by our janitors...
...best that they should live. How should we know what the last thing in neck-wear was if that blank-faced young man, X -, did not consider it his duty to keep the run of the proper things to support his chin, and serve as a walking show-case to his less ambitious neighbors...
...important preliminary arrangements for its inauguration next fall have been made, and it only remains for certain minor details of preparation to be completed and for the director and students to sail for Greece, in order that the school may actually begin its proper work in the chosen field...