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...such a faith to be sustained, with every night's inevitable raucous chorus of Rhinehart, Rineheart, Reinhardt, or as you will, according to pronunciation? For surely sophomores are too sophisticated, juniors too hedonistic, seniors too conscious of dignity, to bawl so puerility into the otherwise stilly night. Yet this cacophonic condition prevails with careful regularity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oft in the Stilly Night | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...called the fine news across the room to tell his secretary, found her tittering timorously and avoiding his look. Again he looked at his paper. Here was his name in print! What had he done? Dastardly impudence! Oh! . . . This was not the Wall Street Journal. He was reading the Bawl Street Journal, its gay, impish perfect imitation which the Manhattan Bond Club issues for its annual picnic. Now he could settle down to enjoy the neighborhood merriment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lycidas | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...that in this communication to the CRIMSON we were only acting up to the tradition of lamenting the institution of divisional examinations for Seniors. The early siege of Spring will partly excise this early lament. But you may rest assured that we are merely starting the ball (or "bawl") rolling, and that from now on there will be a flood of such Senior sonneteering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Groan From the Pit | 2/21/1925 | See Source »

...feudal castle the Interpaper Pastimes Association approved Friday, June 3, as a beautiful day for the annual base-running best of the Arterial Blooders with the bowlegged Barons of Bow Street Bend. The Arterial Artists are expected to drive the Lords of Mirth from the lists, and heralds will bawl the decisions of the judges to the fractious faus roaring around the flowing flagons of fragrant nut-brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Straight Dope for Sport Fans | 5/25/1910 | See Source »

...current issue of the Lampoon needs no introduction. It comes to us as an old, old friend, and brings to us tender recollections of days at school, when a pun on "bass bawl" and "base ball," or the confusion of "pane" with "pain" seemed to us as merry as could anything. To speak seriously there are in the number some old and some rather strained jokes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lampoon. | 5/4/1897 | See Source »

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