Word: bawdiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acting honors for the evening were snatched by Thomas G. Ratcliffe, Jr. '35 as Falstaff, who shook and belched and toddled and fought and ran and swore his way through that bawdiest of parts King Henry, in the person of Roger W. Drury '36, was a stately and dignified monarch, bent on the suppression of rebellion, and on the reformation of his madcap son, Harry...
...playing follow the lewder in the same field, Boston has lost sight of one essential fact. The mud that has been thrown at it could be hurled with equal and even more exactitude at the other metropolises of the East. It is absurd to say that Boston is the bawdiest of cities for it ranks only eighth in population. Unless "Plain Talk" can produce per capita statistics for indulgence in vice showing that five out of five in Boston deserve the scarlet letter, one should continue to believe that it is in precisely eighth place and no higher...