Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom hit Boston yesterday with a thud as of a rotten tomato and with odor to match. Poor gags, far-fetched puns, drawn-out dialogue, and a well-nigh non-existent plot combine to make "Harvard, Here I Come" as a rather tedious ordeal. Except for the local interest in Hollywood's presentation of what bodes ill to become its favorite subject, Harvard, the show is merely another low metabolism slapstick comedy...
From George VI to Sir Mark Young, Hong Kong's Governor, went a chin-up message: "The thoughts of all at home are with you and the people of Hong Kong in your ordeal. I congratulate all ranks of the fighting forces on their courageous resistance in the face of heavy odds and I send all my best wishes to you and all in the island...
Donald Nelson bluntly told the manufacturers that "if private enterprise is going to come through this ordeal it has got to undergo considerable improvement." Despite industry's "amazingly fine" defense record in 18 months, "production at that rate won't beat Hitler. It won't even keep Hitler from beating everybody else. . . . At the very least that production volume must be doubled." He urged them to take more initiative in seeking contracts and supplies; before running to Washington, "go out and wear out a little shoe leather...
President Thomas instituted special en trance examinations for Bryn Mawr (which she took care to make tougher than Harvard's), made every matriculant show that she had mastered four years of Latin, put her girls through an ordeal by fire called "orals" (oral tests in French and German), decreed that every girl must read at least two hours every night before going...
...King Baggot version which left its mark on Reader Brace's moppethood. A crawly two-reeler made in 1913, it used the camera dissolve process to meld blue-eyed Mr. Baggot into horrendous Mr. Hyde. Critics, as well as small boys, were scared. Actor Baggot survived his ordeal to make more than 300 pictures, eventually became a director. When last seen on celluloid, he was playing the part of a perfectly normal doorman this year in Come Live With...