Word: collegian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage in handsome form. With a full cast of skilled performers the play blossoms forth in all its noble, rib-tickling splendor, a truly hilarious bit of eighteenth century Americana. Backed by a variety of well designed stage settings the drama runs its solid simple course. The handsome Yale collegian (Robert Reed) meets the fair maiden and before the first act is out they have settled down in the pretty (but mortgaged) cottage and have had their first child, an amazing infant who has done no mean growing in her first four summers (played with delicate tenderness and piping falsetto...
...ordinary junior high student 36. Second thing the authors noted was the wide range of scores. Surprising were the two students, one in college and one in high school, who correctly answered 100 questions each. Appalling were the high school dullard who could answer but three, the collegian who could answer...
...guests, regardless of their political views. Most U. S. students who were interested enough to have any attitude at all accepted this gentlemanly one without question. In sizable cities there were usually four or five hotheads who bawled "Down with Fascism!" in the visitors' hearing, but no smalltown collegian so far forgot his manners...
...success, to make a Grand Hotel of the lounge in a Manhattan theatre. In the narrow space between the Men's Room and the Ladies' Room are packed a half-dozen plots and subplots. There is the harassed man whose wife is having a baby, the callow collegian who gets caught lying to his sweetheart, the burly youth who finds it embarrassing to have just married a scrawny dowager, the bewildered old couple from the country. There is, too, the graciously unfaithful wife (Ilka Chase) who discovers that her lover is a cad. An earnest coatroom attendant...
...start. Britain's Joseph C. Turner, who smokes a pipe while driving, saw his flywheel jump overboard. France's Jeari Dupuy (Petit Parisien) hit a buoy. Horace Tennes, 21-year-old Northwestern undergraduate, driving his Hootnanny VI won at 52.6 m.p.h., three seconds ahead of the other collegian on the U. S. team, Philip Ellsworth of Bucknell, a mile ahead of the rest of the field...