Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From this bit of kidding was hatched a most devious and deceitful plot to frighten the varsity's opponents...
Benedict FitzGerald '08, of Cambridge, complained that he has no place to move the house in the Cambridge area because no residential land is available. He is searching for a "75 foot plot of land within the radius of a mile and a half of Harvard Square...
...reason in The Egghead is a matter of plot. Basically-with its tale of a cocksure know-it-all who is being royally had and is only saved by his bird-brained wife (Phyllis Love)-the plot is a staple of artificial comedy and farce. But here the tricks and artifices are applied, with considerable loss in credibility, to something serious and real. Moreover, as anything but a purely comic butt, the professor seems just a little too wet behind the ears and behind the times...
...plot is much the same as the old. A rich young girl (June Allyson) collects a dockside derelict (David Niven), takes a liking to the fellow, and offers him a job as the family butler. To everybody's surprise, he buttles superbly, bottles seldom, and battles tirelessly for the best interests of his employers-a group of people about as easy to live with as a family of full-grown crocodiles. In the end, of course, the butler has the crocodiles eating out of his hand, and in the final frame the charming little beast who found him snaps...
...English-Speaking Peoples (there is a final volume on The Nineteenth Century yet to come). One quality is control; Churchill manages to grasp a huge and chaotic period (1688-1815) without ever letting a war, a revolution or a leading character get out of hand in the plot. The other quality is a kind of historical cosmopolitanism scarcely to be found in any other writer; Churchill ranges from English county politics to American economic discontents to the last stirrings of the Holy Roman Empire to French diplomacy to Oriental intrigues with a total ease that once again reveals...