Word: furioso
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...Hasty Pudding display the first club operetta. "Dido and Aeneas," written by Owen Wister and presented in 1882, is represented by the original playbill and a photograph of the cast. The club gave its first stage production in 1845, a burlesque called "Bombastes Furioso," held in a member's room in Hollis Hall. Many Hasty Pudding show books are displayed, including the "Famous Fakirs" of 1908, its first modern musical comedy, and "The Sphinx," the only show staged professionally after its Harvard appearance...
...time for the first public performance of the seventy-ninth annual theatrical production of the Hasty Pudding Club, the days are recalled when these production were in their infancy and "Laugh It Off" would sound as incongruous for a title as "Bombastes Furioso" sounds today. The evolution of these performances from mock trials and impromptu sketches to elaborately modern and professionally coached musical comedies has a parallel in the change of the American vaudeville from nineteenth century burlesque to the present type of musical extravaganza...
...Great Scene particularly evoked acclamation. The two contestants were milling gloriously on the stage, while the orchestra milled away at its violins and double-basses, prestissimo furioso...
...conducting the course. It is reasonably poor psychology to reassign sections on the beginning of the second term according to the grades men have received in the mid-year examination. And, secondly, what possible benefit can accrue to the student from rushing through a very dull grammer "allegra furioso" and then repeating the performance at a still madder pace? Any student who has "flunked" German A will assure you that the undergraduate would learn far more if the grammar were gone through only once but more slowly and thoroughly. If more drilling in grammar is then needed...
...Bombastes Furioso," a burlesque, was the next thing on the programme. The cast is as follows...