Word: entrapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After sitting up nights wondering how to entrap the clean young lieutenants, ensings, midshipmen, V-12ers and G.I.s running around Cambridge unleashed, Radcliffe girls have finally found the proper snare. The signs all over the Yard saying DAPAROF, they have confessed, is just a cheap publicity gag. "Dance and Play at Radcliffe on Friday," is their new cry. Just to be cute and mysterious they condense it to DAPAROF. Something called the Radcliffe Service Organization ("We are not a USO") is the sponsor...
...hammiest scenes and lines have been left intact, and are played straight. The barkeeper and the gambler leer, sneer, entrap their victims. Joe the drunkard wrestles in agony with the demon rum; his little daughter quavers Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, and later dies; Joe remorsefully swears off liquor with the old gag, "I'll never drop another drink-I mean drink another drop." The gambler stabs the squire's son, and the barkeeper's son slugs his old man to death with a gin bottle...
Tupelo is an ultra-romantic spot on the shores of Lake Waban, otherwise known as Wellesley pond. There the wily Wellesley lassies will in traditional manner seek to entrap the Class of '45 on balmy spring nights...