Word: mcdonaldization
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...film's producers were apparently aware that audiences are as sick of the tale of intrigue in a Balkan bungalow as they are of Jeannette McDonald. So they got smart and rigged up a whole new story. There was only one flaw in the plan: the new story was just as bad as the old one. They also thought they'd provide an antidote to the somewhat ghastly charms of Miss McDonald. So they raided--and that word is more descriptive than you think--the Metropolitan Opera and came up with Rise Stevens. This little scheme fell through...
Leader of this team was, of course, Claire Chennault. His flying partners were two Regular Army sergeants who held temporary lieutenancies in the Air Corps Reserve: William C. McDonald Jr. and J. H. Williamson. Sergeants McDonald and Williamson flunked their academic exams when they applied for permanent commissions, left the Air Corps and went to China. Disgusted Claire Chennault openly protested the Army's failure to keep them: "If we were going into war and I were ordered to the front, I'd choose those two men to accompany me. . . ." Claire Chennault quit the Air Corps (officially...
Gifford, whom Coach Jim McDonald called the most improved player on the squad this fall, prepped at Exeter and has played soccer each of his three years at Harvard...
John P. Kennedy Jr. '44, Robert L. Goel '44, Newbold R. Landon '42, Neunert F. Lang '44, Richard Lehman '44, Emil W. Lehmann '44, Melvern K. Leisy '44, Robert W. Levine '42, Walter S. Long Jr. '43, Robert A. McCleary '44, Wallace McDonald '44, George C. McElheny '42, Loren G. MacKinney '42, Arthur T. von Mehren '43, James G. Melrose '44, Roy McM. Millen '44, Frank G. Miller '43, Maynard M. Miller '43, Vern K. Miller '42, Kirby M. Milton...
...Brown invaders, who, advanced reports indicated, were a powerful eleven, were completely overshadowed by the skillful, smooth functioning of Jim McDonald's aggregation. The Crimson booters, drilled in the principle of right over might, even matched the Bears in the hard-hitting type of game they play...