Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front-seat rivalry for two short weeks with the mythical tired business man; to others it means wandering home to pick up well-intentioned neck-ties and a little rest. For others, it is rumored, the Christmas Spirit hovers over the ice-caked board walks and the dust-laden air of Widener. The Christmas Spirit, though, is pagan-hard and Christoan-strong enough to disregard such unessential differences. We are all brothers, under the skin or in a shopping crowd. And so, to everyone, like this Christmas spirit and tuberculosis seals, go the sincere wishes of the CRIMSON...
...here's to you Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air...
...Swarthy armor of his skin. His chest was as hairy as the pelt of a bear. His teeth were sharp as stakes. He taught his soldiery to play a game-first you took a village, then you lined up women, tore the babies from their breasts, tossed them in air, impaled them on spear points. Some say that a British propagandist, not Osman Digna, invented this game, but Colonel Horatio Kitchener (young then) took it seriously. He went after Fuzzy Wuzzy at Handub but a black archer pinked the Colonel in the neck, and the man with the ugly face...
Torrential Serbian protests filled the hall of a great mansion at Belgrade. "No, no?you shall not go out. Think, father Nikola, of what the doctor said! Please, you must not go out into the night air...
There may, however, be a deeper-rooted reason for the restrained and reverential air of the collegians. It may be the final manifestation of Harvard indifference. In Boston theatres one often begins to sentimentalize over the closing clinch of hero and heroine, only to be awakened by the solo kisses of the cynical. Here in Cambridge we are beyond this stage. To a Harvard man a kiss is a kiss, and only deserves a yawn. We are not only indifferent about our work, but also about our entertainment. Cynicism has given place to boredom...