Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer because no time was devoted to dummy drill for the reason that the absence of several key men on account of hour exams and sundry other scholastic commitments made such a workout impractical. Just why it seemed rougher, or more spirited, than usual is hard to say...
There is a longstanding and eminently wise football custom which dictates that neither the coaches nor the school newspaper of any institution beaten in a football game should say anything against the winning team which might imply that the game was won in an unfair or immoral fashion...
...cover of a large picture magazine, similar to "Life," is flashed upon a screen, to the accompaniment of March of Time-type music and the pontifical voice of a news commentator. The idiocyncrasies of the Luce Press are favorite sport among the satirists this season anyhow, and so--you say to yourself, perhaps--here is musical comedy's own gay potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last night to this reviewer. Yaleman Harvey Small (Luce) is soon lost in the shuffle of calico and cowboy boots...
...only one. Lenore Lonergan, another featured player in the show, and an expert comedienne, has no volume for singing, much less a voice, and she, too, is given songs to sing. Assuming that the lyric writer (Johnny Mercer, in the current case) has something to say, it would be good to hear what it is. Miss Lonergan can not be dismissed, however, as a total failure. In fact, in her non-musical moments she contributes more to the comedy than any of the other performers...
...Danny School as a returned Air Force veteran. (One of Mr. Scholl's songs, in which he reminisces of his flying experiences, is called, believe it or not, "The Big Movie Show in the Sky." Typical line: "Its a funny feeling when you see St. Peter smile/And he says he's had a movie camera on you all the while.") The love situation is complicated when some of the disgruntled veterans put Easy Jones (Mr. Scholl) up to run against Hominy. However, as dishonest as Hominy is, he is colorful--as we say here in Boston--while this Easy Jones...