Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this bit of nonsense Director Lloyd Bacon might have squeezed a few touches of light satire or screwball comedy. Instead he has played it cute and coy. The only really cute thing in the movie is Betty Lynn, who fits her role as snugly as she fits her sweater. The rest, including Rudy Vallee as another pince-nezed fuddy-duddy, is synthetic fluff, which ought to do well in the neighborhood houses by the time hot weather comes...
John went to Harvard (Class of '15), but he had to do it with the help of friends and a town scholarship. What was even more socially disastrous, he says, was the fact that he had gone to Newburyport High School instead of Groton, Exeter or St. Mark's. At Harvard, the more snobbish prep-school men of his class cold-shouldered him and sometimes, he imagined, pointedly crossed the street to avoid speaking to him. (John tucked that away, too. Charley Gray, thinking back over what it had been like to go to Dartmouth from Clyde High...
There were other differences. One summer Christina suggested they take their vacation abroad. "Instead I took her on a canoe trip to Minnesota and Ontario." When they were living in Boston and he told her about his idea for The Late George Apley, she remarked, as he remembers it: "That's a good book to write if you want to leave Boston, that's all." They were divorced...
Indecent Exposure. Instead, Marquand came back from the war "full of beans and determined to make one billion dollars." He compromised for a $50-a-week job on the New York Tribune Sunday section, then shifted to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency as a copywriter (after Harvardman Robert Benchley, '12, tipped him off that a job was open...
...controversy, which started when the Saltonstall Committee began considering proposals for a memorial in the fall of 1947. All three groups, the Saltonstall Committee and the directors of the two alumni organizations, rejected requests of students and alumni for a more costly Memorial Activities Center and chose the plaque instead...