Word: man
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high quality of acting and vivid sets, to finish off the show, like the Emperor himself, in fine fashion. There were times, however, when the pace lagged and might have been quickened up to heighten the suspense. Frank Silveram, who, by necessity of script, practically put on a one-man show, got plenty of oomph into the part, though occasionally overacting it. The real laurels go to Edwin Pettet who gave the part of Smithers zest that it has seldom had before...
...Dartmouth Man." Here the Vagabond grinned, trying to wheedle a polite smile out of his listeners. "Wait until you see him going down Boylston Street to a football game. He'll probably have on a racoon coat and he'll look as though he ought to be carrying a silver hip-flask. His girl will be wearing an all-green outfit, even though she looks like the devil in green. Maybe he'll be shouting something about 'Men of Dartmouth...
...Harvard Man...
...Harvard draws all kinds from all places. Look around the Union and you'll see them; recognize them by their clothes, their hair-cuts, the way they use their hands. Brilliant scholars, lots of these, every fourth man the head of his secondary school class. Athletes, six-foot-one, one hundred eighty, in by the skin of their teeth. Hell-raisers who already know every bar that stays open after hours. High-school boys in dark serge; and prep-school boys wearing tweeds and plaids with the proper air. Social registerites. Dilletantes. Radicals...
...Harvard changes them. But not to the same pattern, not according to the same specifications. They go out into the world as different as they came in, and they contrive to make Harvard Man mean something different to every other person...