Word: windowful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...From a Graduate's Window" we are told of a dialogue with Socrates in which that philosopher "roasts" the Fogg Museum and the Corporation's utilitarian view of architecture. On his own responsibility "Graduate" satirizes the diplomacy of intercollegiate sport, especially with relation to a certain affair between colleges "A" and "B." He closes with "two maxims, long held as truths among antediluvians: 'Do not whitewash ! Cultivate sport for the sake of sport, and for nothing else...
...author forces the pathetic note and often disfigures his best opportunities with the written equivalents for "make-up," graduated foot-lights and slow music. The other two writers are more simply faithful to human nature. Mr. Barrie's humor is richer than Maclaren's and poor Jess's window in "A Window in Thrums" is a focussing element which adds immensely to the effect of Mr. Barrie's best book. "Ian Maclaren" does not force the pathetic note, but he repeats it too often perhaps within the compass of one volume; and "Beside the Bonny Briar Bush" would have added...
FRENCH PLAY BALLET.- Watch the CRIMSON window this morning for notice of rehearsal...
...Forgotten By-way-From an Office Window...
ROOM TO LET.- Bonus, pleasant, sunny room, single or suite; bow window, house and furniture new; furnace, gas; two minutes from Memorial. Reduced from $150. 1673 Cambridge street...