Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This leaves a facetious fringe of about 23 per cent which is of course only an approximation at best since the temptation to play around varied with the questions. However, this estimate from the negative point of view ties in with the positive example of the aforementioned Casey Jones, where 31.5 per cent couldn't resist...
...pretty apparent that many of the wrong answers filling over five columns of Sunday's Times were, as he said, the honest attempts of people who "just didn't know." It seems equally apparent that 1500 out of 7000 students would not call Casey Jones a prominent figure in the history of America's railroads if they expected to be graded on their papers...
This leaves a facetious fringe of about 23 per cent, which is of course only an approximation at best since the temptation to play around varied with the questions. However, this estimate from the negative point of view ties in with the positive example of the aforementioned Casey Jones, where 21.4 per cent couldn't resist...
...fact that 1,500 student listed Casey Jones as a 'famous railway man' and that about half of the total of 7,000 suggested that William James was the brother of Jesse James was also apparently lost on the Times. I understand that the Times has informed the Crimson that only two per cent of all the replies to the questionnaire were not serious and that these were carefully excluded from consideration in the tabulation of the published results...
...treaty ship laid down in 1927, she is the oldest heavy cruiser the U.S. has. So bare of streamlined beauty is her ungainly silhouette that Correspondent Bob Casey (Torpedo Junction) fondly fastened the nickname "Swayback Maru" on her when the censors would not let him reveal her real name. Because she never got hit hard enough to be sent home for repairs, she never got much publicity. But many a high-ranking Navy man was willing to concede by last week that on performance the Salt Lake City was the No. 1 U.S. cruiser...