Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University mallet men are expected to display greatly improved form over their play two weeks ago when they swamped the Lancers in the first match of the season. The Crimson riders have been practicing twice a week in the Armory and the ponies which were in poor condition at the opening of the indoor league competition have begun to round into shape...
...whom, under her own name of Norma Lee, plays the leading feminine part opposite her husband, discussed with enthusiasm the work of depicting college life on the stage, as they sat at a late breakfast in the Hotel Bellevue. Patterson McNutt, producer, actor, and journalist, who is presenting "The Poor Nut" in Boston, who was also present, was primarily interested in the future of the "college life" drama...
...genuine, clean humor of student life," he said, "is a natural source which will be drawn on more and more. In the 'Poor Nut' there is the additional satirization of the athletic 'ballyhoo', and the fraternity life more prevalent in the Middle-West than in the East...
...poor nuts'," continued the producer, who was a student at the University of Indiana, "are found in every college just as in every other walk of life. They are the inveterate members of the 'cellar gang' of college fraternities, the self-deprecating youths, who suffer from nothing other than the well known 'inferiority complex'. Ordinarily this is merely a stage through which the young man of average ability passes when he first comes into the realization that his early dreams of fame which are the common property of all youngsters, are not materializing. Usually he recovers after the first blow...
...entering Ohio State, where he was active in college journalism as well as dramatics, had already appeared on the professional stage. The son of actor parents, he was, while still a child, making regular appearances as "the boy monologist". Together with his father, J. C. Nugent, he wrote "The Poor Nut", which is a play of his college and the characters are close imitations of the students and faculty there...