Word: bogeys
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...spectre of Harvard impotence in sport is laid. The hockey team has delivered the first blow to the bogey of Crimson disaster. The autumnal gloom, deepened by defeats which were foreseen and could not be averted, is dispelled in a cheerier season. The pride of Yale has skated to a tumble...
...That bogey of liberty--"business efficiency"--is again stalking the land. Mr. Mencken accuses it of a well-assorted category of crimes. Its dastardly attack on the saloon has multiplied sentimental toasts and bibulous jokes. The Kansan prohibition of public smoking has become a subject of vaudeville humor. But the last and least expected of all its crimes is bound to provoke the usually docile American to revolt, instantaneous and complete...
...labeled "socialistic" by their former allies, and the great Fascist alliance of American capital and ex-soldiery will be split asunder. It the Legion is to be congratulated on its vigorous advocacy of a measure which will distribute more justly the burden of war, the association of standpatters and bogey-hunters is to be condoled with upon its loss of a capable if strongheaded ally...
...latest 'bogey man' is that around every corner is stationed a 'Red' or a 'Bolshevik' with a bomb in his hand to blow up the Constitution of the United States unless General Dawes and his associates are called forth to defend...
...tomorrow night, and the reception by Dean and Mrs. Greenough in the Union on Sunday, are opportunities to be seized upon. All who take advantages thereof should soon feel the strangerness wearing off. Indeed, such a welcome as all these events provide, give the lie to the oft-repeated bogey about Harvard's coldness. The new members of the college will not only receive some excellent suggestions on how to deal with problems of college study, but will assuredly realize that the college office is what it is--interested in every individual and his welfare...