Word: cobbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention it. I never really wanted it anyway." By keeping his head in this particular case, he remains on the right side of everybody, for even the waitresses sympathize in his bereavement. It is needless to describe now he ate the shredded wheat on the cob, or the steak, or the jellied egg, or the dessert of pie a la mode, sauce oyster. If one merely understands and imitates the epicurean spirit in ordering, and the knack of turning apt phrases, then one can rest assured oft success...
...which can be worked out mpore easily in college, perhaps, than elsewhere. Once let the assumption that a scrap of fame be forgotten, and the theory that marks are of themselves the be-all and the end-all be allowed to accumulate cob-webs, and we shall be able to show Mr. Butler that so long as "Pigs is Pigs," colleges is colleges...