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Summer Vacation

The Halls of Ivy · 1952 · 25 min · 3,399 words

The transcript of “Summer Vacation”, an episode of The Halls of Ivy from 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Halls of Ivy plays The Halls of Ivy free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The halls of Ivy starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. This is Ronald Coleman and Bonita Coleman. Inviting you to join us again on the campus of Ivy College. That's the wrong... The Ivy USA.

Dr. William Todd Hunter Hall, president of Ivy, starts this week on his vacation. Accompanating, even we say, by his charming wife, Victoria. And here in his administration building office, metaphorically putting up the shutters, cutting off the utilities and stopping the milk delivery for the summer.

We find Dr. Hall and his secretary the indispensable, Miss Goodson. Let's finish up Miss Goodson before we have another influx of Bon voyage visitors and footloose professors. Not either anything else. Before I showed her my knapsack and wander off through bug and fen.

There are two letters to sign, Dr. Hall. Only two of that splendid. For me to get through the college year is a two letter man, it's quite an achievement. Which two are they? One of them is a personal note to Mr. Wolfe of Business Administration who left us to go with an advertising agency in New York.

And three times the salary we could give him, I'm happy to say. With his energy and personality, he'll make a fine... What is the term? Huxter. Oh, yes. Yes. Probably from the Middle English word, huckle, meaning hunch.

Because destiny seems to have shaped his ends for an executive chair. and the other letter to professor Alvin Winegan of the English department congratulating him on his new publication called What's a Good Word Ah yes a real contribution to the living language Professor Winegan advocates a positive approach to popular usage My mother always took a negative approach

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