Word: avid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator and his tactics. As one professor said, "Any one can be anti-McCarthy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but for the President of the college located in Appleton, Wisconsin--McCarthy's stronghold--to sign that report, well, that took nerve"--especially since some of Lawrence's trustees are avid McCarthyites. On the whole, however, relations between town and gown have been unstrained. Townspeople interested in the college often attend the school's plays and open lectures. The rest seem to have forgotten that Lawrence lies at the end of College Avenue...
Ever since the return of the sacred ibis to our avid avi-culturists, I have been looking for its reappearance on the Cambridge scene. Having perched so long atop the Lampoon Building without inibision, the ibis should again be visible ibjdem. Then all Cantabrigians can shout the prophotic words of the ancient Ovid, "Medio tutissimus ibis," that is, "The ibis is most safely back in our midst...
Sweden's King Gustaf VI, an avid amateur archaeologist, spent a whole day at the Valo High Seat diggings and acted as excited as a schoolboy. When he left, he gave Archaeologist Holmquist a rousing kick in the seat of the pants: the good old Swedish way of wishing him the best of luck in his follow-up diggings...
...Ruby the Barber is one very interesting guy. An avid follower of the bang tales, Ruby has, through the years, developed an amazing insight into the general sporting picture. He was, at one time, a tonsorial expert at a small parlor in The Big Town and in his day he has hobnobbed with many of the laudable figures in the world of athletics...
...have one quibble with the Lampoon which concerns a story titled "O.D. Christmas," signed by one "CBW." There is no CBW visible on the 'Poon's masthead these days, but avid followers of the magazine like myself will remember a Clement B. Wood who enhanced the magazine's pages in the Good Old Days of '47, '48, and '49. Perhaps he has sent in some new material to revive a lagging Lamphoom, but I doubt it. If the story is a re-print, and I rather think it is, the Lamphoom has an obligation to its readers to so identify...