Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with joint submission of course, would have to come higher marking standards so that the five hour wonders could not continue to bull their way to B's. But the combination of the two would not only work to relieve the Freshman, but also the new system would better realize the aims of the G.E. program...
Steadman, who jousted daily on the Editorial page of last Year's News, claims it is "a piece of red serge used by the matador for passes and to distract the bull at the kill...
...foot in his mouth when he refers to "the swarthy Segura (who) resembled a matador burying his muleta." One doesn't burry muletas any more than one buries baseball bats. They are wooden props used to hold the cape with one hand so as to distract the bull while one kills him with a sword held in the other hand. --Larry Wilde...
...obviously a hero, and he was wearing Blue! Soon, however, Cooper's elongated syllables marked him as no son of New England or Middle West. The truth came out. He was a renegade Virginian who had resigned his West Point commission only to reaccept it in time for First Bull Run. He then went west to perform yeoman service in breaking a gang of horse rustlers working with a fantastically honorable bunch of Southern officers. The real villain was a traitorous Yankee colonel (I think from Vermont) whom Cooper brought to grief in the final reel. Save your Yankee dollars...
...most part, Author Phillips-Marquand tells his story at just above the level of fashionable young folks' gossip and at something less than the depth of a good college bull session. Why the George Marsh generation is lost (if it is) is a question that is never really asked, much less answered. Author Phillips can sketch scenes of prep school, Harvard and Manhattan fast-set life that have pace and surface savvy. That is something, at 28; enough, anyway, to have turned the nodding heads of the Book-of-the-Month judges, John Marquand Sr. abstaining...