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...closest thing we'll ever have to a pep rally," one participant apologized to his date (referring to Part II, the riot). She smiled. Then a cop, also smiling, pushed them out of earshot...
...twenty girls asked if they thought the spirit was as good as in previous years, eighteen said that LSU needed more spirit if they expect to win the (football) game (with Ole Miss). The other two thought that improvements in pep could be made...
...glum. In Act I, the President glooms about being in the White House, little-boy-blues-singing his way through such laments as It Gets Lonely in the White House. All through Act II, the ex-President glooms about being out of the White House, dosing himself with musical pep pills (You Need a Hobby). Having opted for sentiment instead of satire, Mr. President should have been rousingly rah-rah; instead, it is mostly nahnah...
Four years later, when Clarence Darrow was accused of bribing a juror, it was Rogers he asked to defend him. Even Rogers' enemies conceded that his defense was brilliant. Adela pictures Darrow sitting morosely in court, Rogers doing his best to pep him up. Long before the trial was over, writes Adela, Darrow was assured of acquittal; but he almost convicted himself by making a two-day speech to the jury. Darrow wept so much that his sleeves looked as if they had been "plunged into a rain barrel." Obviously piqued that Darrow's reputation outshines daddy...