Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly the half of it. Regularly scheduled social gatherings arranged by the Summer School, enjoyable as they may be, are almost insignificant when compared to the multitude of little ways in which the School is working every day to make sure that Oklahoma A. & M. girl meets Harvard boy, that International Seminar participant from Korea gets to see Boston, and that romantically inclined couple find out where they can rent a rowboat...
...examination without benefit of an espionage system, Mr. Harvey deserved at least a passing grade. Anything he could write on so small a space might just as well have been memorized. Most of the myths students cherish about cheating are about as reliable. Ever hear about the boy with the hearing aid tuned in to a portable tape recorder...
...Faringdon, who begged "your Lordships to join me in making a demonstration in favor of elegance. Lord Conesford agreed, pointed out that h words that are not accented on the first syllable demand an. "I believe," said he, "that every one of your Lordships would say 'a Harrow boy,' but would also speak of 'an Harrovian.' " But what, asked Lord Rea, would Lord Conesford do with one-syllable words? "In the case of an inn sign of a public house, would he look at it as 'A Horse and a Hound...
...proposition: that Bob move in as Sanders' ghost artist while she and the cartoonist are off on their honeymoon. Additional comedy is supplied by Pearl Bailey, who doubles as narrator and songbird when she is not pretending to be Sanders' maid, as well as by a small boy (Jerry Mathers) and a large shaggy dog. With this much to go on, Hope sets about rewinning Eva Marie with all the tested ingredients of farce, from pratfalls to bedroom scenes to hurry-up exits and entrances. Everything winds up in a final bedlam as Cartoonist Sanders' apartment...
...brooding on his diet ("In a day or two he intended to eat an entire raw liver, for he had been feeling groggy lately; a straight meat diet was getting him down"), David manages to get himself tied up to a tree while a squaw supervises a small Indian boy in cutting off one of his thumbs. He gets free, of course, and goes back to "making pemmican and thinking...