Word: folderol
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...refuse to let my work be interfered with by such legal folderol. If a person entering the practice of medicine were always considering whether he'd be sued or not, he'd be nothing but a pussyfooter. I have no criminal intent. The woman and her husband have no criminal intent. To me it is a decent and humane act, and I stand...
...Bush-Fekete & Mary Helen Fay; produced by Elliott Nugent & Robert Montgomery) has a well-intentioned topical slant, but is really old folderol under new flags. It is one more tale of a man and girl divided by everything but their love for each other; only here, instead of being Guelph & Ghibelline, or Roundhead & Cavalier, they are a Soviet officer and an American newspaper correspondent (Philip Dorn & Claire Trevor). They meet in Russian-occupied Austria-the girl is there on her own, looking for an American who did treasonable broadcasts for the Nazis; the Russian is on furlough. While fighting over...
Raison d'etre of the most hectic resurrection of collegiate tradition, folderol, and general social fireworks Cambridge has seen since the days of the John Held cartoon, the sixty-third Harvard-Yale football game gets under way at the Stadium today at 1:45 o'clock. The Elis are rated a strong favorite to defeat the Crimson and annex the Big Three title...
...Noel Coward; produced by John C. Wilson) was in no great hurry to cross the Atlantic after its London production (TIME, May 10, 1943). Now it is here, only Noel Coward addicts need be in a hurry to see it. Barring a few funny lines, it is pretty barren folderol about the life, loves and self-appreciation of a British matinee idol...
Fraternity Folderol. There are now 80-odd student veterans at the University of Southern California, some of them in their third semester. From the start they have had trouble with the fraternities. To many of them fraternity folderol seemed childish, fraternity members immature. They formed their own club, the Trovets (Trojan Veterans).* Fraternity pride was deeply hurt. At first the fraternities tried to control the Trovets, since then have been openly hostile to it. On several occasions notices and reports of Trovet meetings submitted to The Daily Trojan have been "somehow misplaced...