Word: bostonianism
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...sheer aplomb, the proper Bostonian can scarcely be bettered. When Mr. and Mrs. N. Penrose Hallowell were selling their home to Mr. Howard Johnson of eatery fame, Mrs. Hallowell expressed the hope that Mr. and Mrs. Johnson would have a happy future in the house. There was a perceptible silence. Then Master Johnson, age nine, piped up, "There isn't any Mrs. Johnson. One's dead and one's divorced," adding hopefully, "but Daddy's got a girl friend." As the silence turned glacial, Mr. Hallowell rose from his fireside, smote the roadside restaurateur smartly...
...only way in which Harvard's ideals (centering around the individual) can be preserved within education on a large scale is to have many small, independent colleges as at Oxford. As long as one is forced to rely on courses, and central facilities, expansion can only bring a Bostonian Ohio State...
...past to find an explanation for the present, searching for some way to break the accidental but inexorable timetable of his life. But there is no way out. H. M. Pulham, Esq., the caste-conscious Harvard snob, resigns himself to life in a narrowing circle of middle-aged Bostonian complacency (" 'If I had had the guts' -I sometimes find myself thinking, and a part of the old restlessness comes back"). Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. tries to break out of the Army closed circuit, away from the old ways, the old wife, the old family...
...Oregon trail for Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was really the end of a long, grinding, cross-country reconnaissance in force. In the Oregon primary last week, the youthful Bostonian gave U.S. Senator Wayne Lyman Morse the drubbing of his political life and registered his seventh straight primary victory-the final one on his schedule. In the seven triumphs (New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Indiana, West Virginia, Nebraska, Maryland and Oregon), Jack Kennedy was the favorite of 1,500,000 voters, added some 330 committed delegate votes* to his convention strength. More important, by campaigning the hard, primary way, he had buried...
Hurricane Hazel leveled most of the coconut palms in 1955. Bostonian Sumner Smith, who got title to the Swans by default in 1950 after his partners in the trading company dropped out. says: "Maybe, some day, somebody will think of something to do with them." Though lined with lovely beaches, the islands are far off the tourist track and have almost no fresh water. In their spare time, the recent U.S. explorers collected butterflies, iguanas and a variety of legless lizards. They found no swans, however; the islands take their name from an English pirate, and swans are as hard...