Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Champagne Charlie [March 26] gave me quite a lift and guffaw. However, your adjective "military" as applied to Charlie's mustache missed the bull's-eye a bit; perhaps your writer is a youngster who doesn't happen to have seen Kaiser Wilhelm's mustache...
...made philosophy so popular that 2,000 out of 3,500 students each year take at least one course in it. When not talking Aristotle or Aquinas, Iggy is apt to be roaring at a pep rally, cheering on a team or knocking out a bit of ragtime on the piano. "He has been seen," says Athletic Director "Eddie" LaFond, "demonstrating left hooks, racing star sprinters across the campus, doing road work ten miles away, throwing blocks on 225-lb. tackles, pitching for the baseball team and carrying the ball on an off-tackle play...
...condemning me. For if you put me to death, you will not easily find such another, really like something stuck on the state by the god, though it is rather laughable to say so; for the state is like a big thoroughbred horse, so big that he is a bit slow and heavy, and wants a gadfly to wake him up. I think the god put me on the state something like that, to wake you up and persuade you and reproach you every...
Captain Bob Ornsteen, usually a bit erratic early in the season, also had some excellent rounds in practice, and will be at four. Lou Klein will be at five...
...sensational little tidbit, just you listen to this. I personally spoke to Miss Kelly's father, a man who rose from bricklayer to head of a construction company that is worth millions, just millions. Now I asked him point blank whether he thought that Rainier was just a mite bit greasy. Mr. Kelly just scratched his head for a moment, his arms, by the way, are powerful from years of rowing and bricklaying, and said, "He is not greasy. He is simply smooth...