Word: bowser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caldwell's point is that Molly never did have a chance. She was a sharecropper's daughter and early seduced, went from bed to worse until she set up in business for herself in Agricola. When she married Putt Bowser, the town's aging odd-job man, she settled down to housekeeping and running down a husband for Lily, her 16-year-old illegitimate daughter. Then Putt had to go and get himself killed. Said Molly, the day of the funeral: "Maybe it wasn't his fault, but I ought to have had the sense...
...Penn captain looked about him, and his eye fixed on Bowser, a very fat guard. "Let's give Bowser a chance," he said, and Bowser was put in the backfield, while the team assured itself that his bountiful avoirdupois would cut through the Cantabs like a cleaver through soft butter...
...planned. When the ball was hiked back to Bowser, it hit him in the stomach, and bounced off into the arms of Harding, the Crimson quarterback, who ran for a touchdown...
...also announced the existence of a report compiled on information filed by Hallowell Bowser '44 that he had been denied admission to the club last November. Bowser, along with Chester M. Pierce '48, was blocked at the door last Saturday night, precipitating a Student Council protest...
These records show, she added, that Bowser filed a complaint with the committee similar to the present action last November, describing a rebuff he received then by the Club management...