Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came about, according to the United Press, when Billy was asked to pick Mississippi State College's most beautiful co-ed. Where is Mississippi State College, anyway, and what does it want? Mr. Rose demurred. "Judging beauty is an important part of my business," he said. "This year I've waded through pictures of hundreds, possibly thousands, of college girls trying to find the prettiest for their class magazines...
Perhaps the significant part about all this is that the publicity agents are back in the colleges. Ann Sheridan, Lampy's Ibis-everyone's trying to get into the set. Watch your neighborhood theatre for a now upsurge of Joe College movies. The girls are always beautiful in these, anyway...
There are circuses of one, two and three rings. I run, or attempt to run, a three-ringer. Only there are no cages and no whips (whips would leave marks, anyway). I have 43 performers in my circus: eleven in the fifth grade, 14 in the fourth, 18 in the third. The total arena is 32 by 23 feet. Except for two or three third-graders, none of the little animals have had trainers. They had a teacher three months of this year; she is now in a mental home. Not that the children drove her crazy; she just...
Geography. Not one understood one iota of the geography books they had been reading. I have practically stopped all formal geography (of which I know nothing anyway), and we have spent the first weeks learning what north, south, east & west mean and what a map is. We are studying our town; soon we shall be able to get a faint idea of the county...
...nickname "Crime," by the way, apparently originated with a little pun with which the Advocate used to amuse itself. "Crime's Own" was supposed to sound like "Crime-on." Anyway, Crimeds adopted the tag, and have used it as a heading for newshreaks garnished with appropriate ed notes...