Word: kidde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years at the University of California School of Jurisprudence, Professor Alexander Marsden Kidd has had no trouble living up to his obvious nickname. In all the university's vast (3,250 members) faculty, no teacher is so fierce in pursuit of his prize (knowledge) or so furious in the treatment of his enemy (the lazy student) as the law school's "Captain Kidd...
Professor Kidd is a sharp-beaked little man with a shiny bald pate, who came to the Berkeley campus in 1905 and has been teaching there ever since. In that time no student who was as much as 30 seconds late has ever made his way into one of his lectures; those who tried it wish they had saved themselves the tongue-lashing. On the outside, Captain Kidd was a mild enough man, quick with advice or even a small loan for a student who needed it. But inside his classroom, peering out from under his green eyeshade...
...years, Captain Kidd has put hundreds of students through such paces. One was the late General Hugh ("Ironpants") Johnson; another, California's Governor Earl Warren. ("An average student," says the Captain of Governor Warren. "I always figured he'd get farther on his personality than his legal knowledge . . .") They all learned what the Captain was after. He loathed the traditional law-school curriculum in which each course is a separate package, bound by the particular textbook cases at hand. He wanted to force a student to draw upon his entire knowledge of law. For all their sufferings...
...show has its very real assets: Nanette Fabray who, without losing one whit of her looks, keeps gaining in versatility and charm; and Ray Middleton, who has both voice and personality. It has some admirably lively and stylish Michael Kidd dances. It has one of Kurt Weill's most attractive scores, ranging from satiric little ditties like Progress to the full-throated tunefulness of Green-Up Time...
...high-powered motor launch. Armed with submachine guns and dressed as customs men, they boarded an unsuspecting Italian freighter, locked the crew in the hold and sailed away to their pirate lair with 2½ tons of U.S. cigarets- in 20th Century Europe, a treasure as fabulous as Captain Kidd...