Word: plighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...getting in is a comparatively simple matter to getting out. The belated visitor finds himself, aghast at his plight, rattling futilely at the door of Randolph which will only open from the other side! People have been known to wander about in this maze for hours before they found the gate and succeeded in climbing over; and although many of the regular visitors who are notoriously poor at fence climbing are now considering the expedient of water proof tents for the evening, the situation is still a critical...
...last, the deb has come into her own. After decades of neglect she has finally been noticed. Yesterday's "Traveler" devoted paragraphs to her sorry plight, and with an acutely sympathetic pen limns a detailed picture of the tortures and agonies of the social round...
...Author Roy Hargrave, who plays the unfortunate hero, is a sometime Williams man (1926), an adept at neurotic portraiture. He makes a terrifying thing of the sophomore's plight. Otherwise the play is often ill-designed; its dialog smacks of college magazines rather than colleges. The other coauthor, a Williams alumnus (1923), is Kenneth P. Britton...
...herself of a distasteful fiancé. One of the simpler and more startling expedients is to tell him that she is with child. Joyce Stanton (Mildred McCoy) makes this strategic confession to G. A. Appleby (Harlan Briggs). Of course it is untrue-she is inspired by the plight of the family's housemaid. Appleby is much older than she and, though he is the town's richest and noisiest citizen, his love-making under the trees is too unctuous for pretty, sensitive Joyce. Her falsehood also reveals that the young college hockey player whom she thought she loved...
...possible [to carry it on] as formerly conducted by me." Last March George Ehret Jr., died. The seven remaining heirs, headed by Louis Ehret, struggled along. Their employes had thinned to 123, their sales to 100,000 barrels per annum. At length they decided that theirs was a hopeless plight...