Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Liberal Union to a jam-packed New Lecture Hall last night, is significant for the cleverly unpolished effect which camouflages its propaganda. It contains none of the gilt-edged-super-collossal-stupendous-gargantuan approach that Hollywood has geared the American public (and even the Harvard student) to lap up. It would have been much more comforting to the wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic crushing power of the German war machine...
...yard individual medley was by far the closest race of the afternoon, with six entrees. Roger Willcox led during the first 50 yards, of breaststroke, but was overtaken by Dave Barnes in the backstroke lap, and was outdistanced by Barnes in the free style stretch. Barnes took the race...
...story obliges the handsomely dressed Fonda to sprawl headlong twice over Miss Stanwyck's legs, tumble across a sofa and land with his face in a plate of hors d'oeuvres, take a drenching of hot coffee, receive a mess of roast beef and gravy in his lap, endure numerous other accidents. They are all funny. More importantly, Stanwyck and Fonda play throughout with a comic agility matching Sturges' frothy script...
...mile and two mile runs and the three lap relay were swept by the Cadets, giving them 22 points to Harvard's one and making it possible for them to lead most of the way in the point scoring despite a seven to four disadvantage in firsts...
...last moment powerful old General George Kondylis neatly elbowed him aside, brought George back to the throne, and himself became first commoner. Only a falling out between George and the General, followed by an opportune death, finally dropped the plum of premiership into Little John's lap...