Word: bicking
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...riot" was culminated when someone turned in a false fire alarm, which brought five pieces of fire equipment to the scene. One of the Cambridge policemen said, "It was obviously a Harvard student who turned in the alarm to get back at the Bick for levying the minimum...
...started in late November. The white frocked observers of the Hayes-Bickford Eating Place clientele noticed some tuxedos among the bearded loafers of the 11 o'clock crowd. Here, they thought, is something. Here is what we have been waiting for these long years. The Bick has ceased to be the symbol of the locusts' ravage, the turtles' quiet call. And swiftly they gathered back where the butterscotch puddings stand stacked in gleaming rows, where the untoasted English lies moist and soft in purple racks. We must do this slowly, they said, but inexorably...
...course of an exam, they were free to take both question sheet and blue book anywhere they pleased, and to talk to whomever they wished. Unable to resisted the temptation, a few girls departed for the Square to take their finals over a cup of coffee in the Bick--an atmosphere hardly conducive to serious academic endeavor...
...murmuring about the marroniers soon to blossom in Paris, the sweet fragrance along the Seine and how the cafes along the Champs Elysees or the Kurfurstendam are putting up their awnings again. The lament of the Eliot House cognoscenti or the bread-cheese-and wine continental wanderers at the Bick for the douceur de vie is especially plaintive as Harvard thaws...
...board game is rapidly replacing "Guggenheim" as the favorite pasttime in Hayes-Bick. Called "Ugly," the game was devised by Robert M. Scher '60, after watching a friend play with "pellets and twists...