Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberal. But the next day "The University" announced that because everyone wanted to cat their turkey on a different day, and because people should do what they wanted to do, it would serve turkey every day for a month and a day. And this was very liberal, and much better than the President and the Governor, who would only let people eat turkey one day a year...
...President wanted to run for a third term, so he decided that he would have to get the people on his side. He knew that people loved to eat better than anything, and that they spent most of the year sitting around, unemployed, licking their chops while waiting for Thanksgiving and the Salvation Army Banquet. So, being, as everyone knows, a frightful opportunist, he decided to make the people like him by giving them Thanksgiving a week early so that they wouldn't have to wait so long. And he did, and they won't, and the Salvation Army objected...
Anyone looking for a couple of free seats for the Yale Game had better change their search to a beautiful girl. The committee of the Harvard-Yale Ball to be held at the Hotel Somerset on the night before the game are offering two free tickets to the most beautiful girl who appears in a red dress and two more to the most beautiful girl in a blue dress. All you have to do is find the girl and the dress, invite her to the dance and then hope she invites you up to the game...
...Contrary to popular belief, Harvard suffices are neither better nor worse than the average New York audience," opined Bert Lahr, star of Cole Perrier's new show "DuBarry Was a Lady," in his dressing room at the Shubert Theatre last night. "All shows these days are written for patrons of the Great White Way, and Harvard boys have their pseudo-sophistication...
...image of a great President. A thousand and one connotations are called up by that sight--the struggle for the Union, the defeat of slavery, in fact, the whole "American dream." Knowing this fact, Capra has played upon it to the limit. Let him who can find a better foundation for democracy cast the first words of criticism...