Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indulgent parents built the Lampoon building so that Harvard's problem children could have the very nicest playhouse in all Cambridge, with towers and Dutch picture blocks and hidey-holes. They filled the nursery with stuffed goosies, Limpopo crocodiles and other whimsey things. Good children should play "I-Spy-the-Ibis" all by themselves and not go annoying busy grown-ups. If there is any more naughtiness, the funny old birds will be locked up for good in Agassiz Museum with the dead mooses...
...aunts but impartial spectators as well, is the performance of the valet. Jose V. Ferrer, Class of 1933. When this jolly young man puts on a woolly yellow wig in Act II he is the image of Harpo Marx. "I'm All Wrapped Up In You" has the nicest lyric of 14 songs. Triangle itinerary: Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore. Washington...
...Ireland's Holy Hill he spent 40 days, heckled by demons in the form of hideous birds of prey which he finally scattered by ringing his bell. Then, like Jacob, he wrestled with a visiting angel, extracting five concessions. The last one St. Patrick judged the nicest: on Judgment Day he would be deputized to judge the whole Irish race. A large court he will need; several years ago it was calculated there were 100 million persons of Irish blood in the world. St. Patrick died March 17, 493, in Saul, County Down and his corpse was wrapped...
...small, intensely loyal staff Publisher Thomason is "Uncle Emory." Female secretaries in the American Newspaper Publishers' Association say "he is the nicest president we ever had." A golf enthusiast, he once played 136 holes in a day, dined immediately afterward and then lost consciousness. He enjoys a crap game but would rather play chess, always carries a pocket-size chess board when he travels. With only a few minutes to catch a train to New York for a flying trip one day he made his business manager accompany him, without baggage, so he could have a chess opponent...
...Royal Box." On New Year's Eve Federal Prohibition agents swooped down upon it in a wellpublicized, spectacular raid. "What a pity!" he lamented. "We had . . . the nicest people . . . 16 cooks. . . . It was not like a club; it was like a home. . . . My heart broke." The day previous he had withdrawn his play, Papavert, from Broadway. Refurbished, renamed Mr. Papavert to preclude confusion with Freudian categories, it was later reopened. After eleven per formances the play, though very funny in France, closed with a loss of $35,000. On the day it closed, he intrepidly opened his second speakeasy...