Word: aped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From now on Harvard is likely to figure in the police news every few hours. As the strain of examinations lifts more and more men annually ape the antics of the monk of Siberia whose prospects grew drearier until he burst from his cell with a loud scream. Already reports are drifting in from the expeditions of the more original freedmen. A pair of enterprising Martin Johnsons have gone on a pigeon hunt along the streets of Boston and Cambridge, popping at their feathered friends in the eaves of prominent buildings of the town with small damage to the birds...
...dangerous to say that the Harvard plan is an attempt to be British, an attempt to ape the Oxford-Cambridge program of vigorous intramural sports and one annual inter-varsity meet in each sport. It is dangerous because it may not be true. And if Harvard were accused of something that was not true, and accused by a university they refer to as "one of our better provinces," the resultant reaction might be a race riot between Harvard students and the hinterland. In all events, Harvard, would be fortifying her athletic record, which of late has been none too rosy...
...outside page is hopefully encouraging. I had about concluded that your art editor was a hopeless, bilious pessimist, for however passable the originals of his selections may have looked in the flesh, when the lineaments were transferred to the cover they generally resembled a gnome, gargoyle or anthropoid ape...
...find out which of the vast collection ever reached the "P'incess" would be like probing a state secret. Two sure bets: the mechanical monkey sent by Queen Mary, the Cairn terrier pup from Edward of Wales. Even in the U. S. there are babes who ape the styles set by "Baby Betty." Several smart Manhattan stores offer imported "Princess Elizabeth prams" (perambulators) at $250 each. Yellow, however...
...Churchill Welliver. Mr. Welliver was an oldtime Washington correspondent and magazine writer for the late Frank A. Munsey. President Harding put him to work gathering factual material for Presidential addresses, outlining speeches, making ponderous platitudes interesting. So well-trained was he in his craft that Mr. Welliver soon could ape the Harding literary style to the complete bewilderment of the White House newsgatherers. He had another duty: to sit in the executive office lobby and amid much blue cigaret smoke converse in low important tones with older Washington correspondents about White House doings. In each "conversation" was planted the germ...