Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against the feared ravages of war, most of Europe's great art collections have gone into hiding. At the New York and San Francisco Fairs, however, many a masterpiece from Europe has safely stayed on display. With both fairs about to close, these foreign art exhibits last week had to seek other shelter...
...dormitories, they gaped at 100 modern brick buildings, an art museum, a 50,000-volume library (named for Alumnus Oliver Wendell Holmes), a new infirmary, an archeological museum, a carillon tower, a forest sanctuary. "Where," grumped Edgar B. Sherrill, '98, "is the Deanery?" "There it is, sir," replied great-nephew Arthur Miles Sherrill Jr., 13, pointing to an imposing new brick-and-concrete commons...
...boys had scholarships, that the captains of seven Andover teams are working their way through. Said he: "When you alumni come upon a brilliant boy in a small town high school, tell him what we have to offer. We want more candidates for our scholarships. . . . This is a great democratic school...
...then, as on Christmas Eve, his gushing soul drips treacle; but the real Whiteside, from his wheelchair throne, commandeers the house, forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to smash his secretary's love affair, bewitches the servants, bedevils his nurse. Snaps he to "Miss Bedpan": "My great-aunt Jennifer . . . lived to be 102 and when she was three days dead she looked better than you do now." But the last word is hers: "If Florence Nightingale had nursed you, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross...
...play is rich in more than one kind of name-calling. Before the wheelchair genuflect the world's great. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends penguins, "William Beebe" an octopus. "Harpo Marx" arrives for a cyclonic visit. "Noel Coward" whizzes by, stopping long enough to play a "new song" of his, a howling burlesque all about...