Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glee Club is still on the score-card while both other Clubs in the "Big Three" League have closed up for the duration. But aside from the fact that there are now only 100 men in the Club instead of the normal 250 of peaceful years, the HGC still does business as usual...
...inspired perhaps his most uplifting prose. One day he went with Publisher Alfred Knopf to hear the Bach Choir at Bethlehem, Pa., and "our tonsils became so parched that we could barely join in the final Amen." Rushing frenziedly to a strange speakeasy, they found themselves without a card of introduction. Mencken did not hesitate. Before the eye at the peephole he held his music score. The eye read...
...summed up the situation this way: "I don't mind being drafted or rationed, but when I can't buy the kind of Valentine I want, the situation is really getting serious." The informant then went on to explain how he had spent hours looking for just the right card and could find nothing. Finally, in desperation he had been forced to cross out "To My Soldier Boy" on a card and put in his true one's name. "Goe," he concluded, "There's not a single good one on the Square that isn't to some soldier or other...
...disappearance of old-time sentiment and laciness is very much in evidence. Seasoned veterans of former years have searched in vain for the one card that would just capture their real feelings. Instead, he has had his choice of Valentines featuring such endearing gifts as a rope, with the suggestion that it be worn around the neck...
Thus far the class most formidably represented by the postcard flood is '44, though closely followed by the Class of '43. Other scanty card-senders were from the Classes of '42, '41, and '45, with one from the Class...