Word: make
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm embrace. Trained at the Ecole Militaire de Hollywood, Mr. Charles Boyer has been intrusted with the command. The first move will be a nation-wide series of lectures to American women's clubs. Boyer is just the man for the job. Daladier can bully the Chambre and make it take notice. Bonnet knows his finance. Weygand can play a campaign over his morning coffee. But only Boyer can do all three and make it exciting enough to pack a women's clubhouse...
Howie Mendel, Lew Vorley, and Art Page make up the rest of the forward line, while Jimmy Rousmaniere and Charley d'Autremont will start with Ives at the halfbacks. Jim Doughty will be at the other fullback post and Jack Penson will guard the goal...
...Jayvees to push over two touchdowns, one on a pass from "Squibby" Squibb to Gordon and the other on a short pass, Bigwood to Kayser. Fumbling the pass from center in an attempted kick for the extra point, Feary plunged over through a maze of Terrier tacklers to make the score...
While the heroics of the last scene are enough to make any present-day cynic writhe, it cannot be denied that Mr. Anderson throws down the gauntlet with conviction and carries the waning torch of idealism high and haughtily. As such, the play warrants consideration from cynics and believers alike. Of course, stretching the Anderson thesis a point further, one can see more than a slight tinge of whooping up the Allied cause in the present war and a plea for U.S. intervention. This facet of the play's "message", if taken seriously, would probably make almost anyone writhe...
Consequently it has adopted all the good features of the Harvard plan. It boosts a man up the ladder at an early enough age so that he still has some elements of unconventionality in his make-up. Likewise it frees a man young enough to enable him to get a good job elsewhere...