Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yarn's hero is a Molnaresque playwright. Its presumable moral: when it comes to finding a happy ending for a sorry mess, only a playwright will do. The playwright's young godson is engaged to a beautiful prima donna. Late one night, godfather and godson overhear the lady, through thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous love scene with an actor. While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on how to save the day: the guilty lovers had really been rehearsing-a play which has still to be written...
...Advocate of this month is, unfortunately, built around a completely uninteresting mess, "The Harvard Political Scene," by Mr. Bluestone and Maurice Charney. A poll of undergraduate opinion of the presidential candidates serves as the jumping-off point for a series of little essays about various politically-minded organizations around the University. This seems to be the kind of material that someone interested in any one group could easily have found out for himself, and it is presented with a minimum of readibility. What prompted this expose in a literary magazine is not too clear. Perhaps it shouldn't be dwelt...
Added to the hospitality of the Rugby Week Committee, headed by Stanley Gascoigne and Stuart Outerbridge, was that of the British Army, for the Harvard team was quartered at the Royal Army's Prospect Officers Mess while on the island. Most of the British personnel, including the famous Gloucestershire Regiment, were down at British Honduras where they were putting down a native insurrection in true Kipling style. The remaining Britishers, however, seemed quite delighted to allow the Harvard team to take over their mess facilities for breakfasts, and to have free rein around the camp. They also provided a cheering...
...Princeton might have claimed the initial advantage by being quartered in Hamilton's Bermudiana Hotel, right in the midst of the visiting girls' college groups, Harvard players are convinced that their quarters at Prospect were superior, and several post-Yale-game parties out at the Harvard-British Officers Mess serve as confirmations to their claim
...Japs will get to Mandalay and crucify us.' I showed him the solution, but [the] stooge jumped in and made a long harangue about how right Chiang Kai-shek was. I let them rant." On that first dinner Stilwell had a typical comment: "What a directive-what a mess!" Even more characteristically he exclaimed, "And what a sucker...