Word: riotousness
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...nine riotous years the late Huey Long's Louisiana State University seemed the answer to a collegian's dream. Upon his students the Kingfish lavished two luxurious athletic stadia, a huge gymnasium, a mammoth coliseum, the longest U. S. swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year...
...work of the Creel Committee was well absorbed by most U. S. citizens-the younger generation, it has been said, never quite recovered. Not easily forgotten were the Creel Committee's Halt the Hun posters, with their spidery villains; its movies, with riotous queues fighting to see that gory thriller, The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin; its 75,000 spellbinding Four-Minute Men; its Red, White and Blue pamphlets, in which famed history professors rewrote German history; its National School Service (circulation: 20,000,000 homes); its syndicated news (20,000 columns a week), boiler-plate ads, feature stories...
...also courting box office defeat. Fortunately, by the grace of the gods and the acting of Bette Davis, "Dark Victory" is no defeat, although it is a rather dark victory. After all, watching some sleezy little minx whooping it up with only ten months to live is not exactly riotous entertainment, and when mixed with some funereal acting by George Brent and a new triple-threat Cleopatra named Geraldine Fitzgerald breaking into tears at the slightest provocation, the total effect becomes rather depressing. In fact those who may go for relaxation after a three-hour Sanskrit exam may become...
...Winthrop Common Room last night a typical Harvard show was presented. It was written by undergraduates, and it was acted by undergraduate hams. It contained a dull first act, an hilarious second act, and a riotous third act, took a lot of stoking to get up steam, but the audience loved it anyhow...
Master of these hunts, which last week wound up a riotous year of keeping Paris in daily stitches, has been self-styled Le Roi des Loufoques (King of the Nuts), Pierre Dae, a baldish, crinkly-eyed comic...