Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William C. Covert, General Secretary of the Board of Education, lamented that a rank, reckless individualism was playing havoc with "our younger generation...
...that time the officers were mounted, and from their positions above the crowd, they were working havoc among the student combatants. The students were quite dismayed at this unexpected attack, but only for a moment until one of the men was inspired with a brilliant idea and held the torch which he was carrying underneath a horse. The animal reared and threw its rider to the ground...
...HAVOC -Fairly conventional War story made serviceable by a competent London cast...
...Havoc. Two War plays from London are on the list this year, successes both across the Sea. The first is Havoc. The second, The Conquering Hero, which will enter town via the Theatre Guild. Havoc is a front-line melodrama, highly charged with the forces of excitement, toned with tragedy and substantially spattered with romance...
...most significant inclination of the new season is the return of the War play. Next week TIME will be occupied with discussions of Nerves by John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benét and of Glory by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. Hard on their heels will come Havoc, fresh from a London success, and The Conquering Hero, by Allan Monkhouse, an Englishman, under the beneficent auspices of the Theatre Guild. At least two others are now in preparation. The swagger and tinsel of war in the theatre of eight years ago has been discarded. The majority of these new productions...