Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inception of the movement at Princeton was received hilariously all over the country as a clever joke relieving the midwinter monotony on Prospect Street. It rapidly expanded to two hundred posts with twenty-two thousand members. Gold Star Mothers and Foreign Correspondents of Future Wars were invented. Buttonholed pedestrians on New York streets jovially contributed quarters. But it was all in the same hilarious spirit, and eagerly backed up by a press that is always ready to play up any college joke...
Based on reliefs, wall paintings, and actual masks found in Pompeii and other ancient cities, these masks are humorous exaggerations, of types found as much today as in ancient Rome; the prodigal son, the stern father, the money-lender, and the clever and stupid slaves...
While reading the review of the current "Advocate" in this morning's Crimson I was impressed by: (1) the name of Mr. Laughlin (recurring no less than eight times in the comparatively brief review); (2) the clever word-melanges (so characteristic of Mr. Laughlin's "Looking Across at the Silveratta,"); the note of self-satisfaction, brought jarringly to the fore in the paragraph captioned "Laughlin-Wolfe-Saroyan" (in order of importance...
Could it be that the anonymous reviewer, who so plainly admires Mr. Laughlin, is none other than Mr. Laughlin? And that the clever and capable Mr. Laughlin has found in Crimson columns an overt means of patting his own ego? For Mr. Laughlin's benefit I suggest that the Crimson run a special series on Mr. Laughlin, entitled "Looking Across at Laughlin" and written, of course, by Mr. Laughlin. Robert Hatch '33 (1st year Graduate Student...
...been a remarkable thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming war will otherwise deprive the most deserving block of its veterans of the Bonus by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humour are not to be censored. Youth must play: and deadly fatalism is quite as diverting as belligerent and shallow pacifism...