Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was a boy at Hyde Park and sailed his toy boats on the placid Hudson, Franklin Roosevelt hungered for romance on the high seas. Never having outgrown his juvenile appetite for maritime adventure, the 32nd U. S. President's eyes sparkled appreciatively last week when he stepped ashore on a Treasure Island as fabulous as Robert Louis Stevenson's. Like a big green peppermint gum drop ringed with a frost of spun sugar, the densely vegetated peaks of Cocos Island rose some 2,000 ft. over his head, while all around the island's steep...
...weakness of the present Republican management has been its disposition to shoot off all their fireworks now, instead of waiting for the campaign. That reminds me of the boy who gets so eager that he just has to buy a giant firecracker three days before the Fourth of July, and then on the night of the third he simply can't stand it any longer and gets up and fires...
Winthrop's winning touchdown cause on a wide end sweep to the left, with Joseph A. Hindle '36, who shapes up as the speed boy of the league, carrying the ball. Winthrop and Dunster both came near scoring several times more, Dunster's best try being on an 80 yard run by John D. Barnes '37 who was nailed on the five yard line by Walter Dub. Brookings '37. The half ended before further scoring chances were possible...
...Well, Mr. Puffer, puff away, Puffer old boy." Mr. Puffer's answer constitutes the Crime. Mr. Puffer pulled away in language that a resident Tutor can reproduce, but the Crimson cannot print, even in the Crime...
Sacha went to twelve schools, got in trouble at all of them, was generally considered backward. He never got out of the first form. At his last school, the master wanted to expel him, could not because the 17-year-old boy had not been at home or at school for five days. His first attempt to sow wild oats was frustrated. When he picked up a dancer at the Moulin-Rouge, she discovered he was Lucien Guitry's son, gave him a good talking-to, took him back to school, standing by to see that...