Word: boola
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banned from the Stadium during the contest and on Sunday morning the Eliot House watchman could claim "I heard only one "Boola Boola" all night...
...green as any freshman. It did not appear on the New Haven scene until the 200th year of a university already laden with antiquities. It is much younger, for example, than old Connecticut Hall (completed 1752), the tavern known as Mory's (b. 1861), or even Boola Boola (1897).* But last week, as it observed its 50th year with an anniversary issue, the Yale Review could take pride in having become, in a mere half a century, one of Yale's-and journalism's-more imposing institutions...
Into this sham-fest the playwright throws a rich young Yaleman, full of boola, moola and ideals, trying to pursue an honest artistic career. Along the way, he is buffeted by a whipcracking female magazine publisher (Lahr), a Hollywood producer named Harry Hubris (Lahr), and his own father, Milo Leotard Allardyce DuPlessis Weatherwax (also Lahr), a wild Park Avenue lecher. When his son admits a literary interest in the exotic sins suggested by Lolita and the works of Oscar Wilde, Weatherwax bellows encouragingly: "That's the stuff to cut your eyeteeth on. You have to learn to crawl before...
...tycoon Larrabee, Bogart has the appropriate earthiness that was last seen in Robert Ryan's portrayal of Gatsby. He is very good in the role. (Casablanca addicts will probably get a kick out of seeing Bogie sailing with his girl on the Sound and humming Boola-Boola...
...white-shoe production of Stover at Yale, a tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play lived up to Alistair Cooke's introduction of it as "a gentle thing, both odd and funny." When the boola overflowed with the fun of the Turkey trot, ragtime and jagtime at Mory's, and naughty dancing girls at lesser saloons, Stover came delightfully alive...