Word: cocked
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...upstart in the Harvard world, it has seen fit to ignore the fact that it has a perfectly respectable ancestry, although not of the best traditional stock, deriving from the long-ago time when Professor Dunbar convinced his colleagues that an economist might be a scholar. With the cock-sureness of youth, the School chose to demonstrate in its own way its preference for such things as the newest classic slogan, the clarion call to "Take Baby...
...hasn't been beaten. The combination of word sounds, the catchy rhythm, the absurd, jolly or pathetic pictures evoked-all have their place and appeal. The rhymes are not "criminal," I am convinced by observation as well as by my own memory. Even to the tragic death of cock robin, which has caused many a weep in many nurseries...
...Cock o' the Roost" at the St. James, light comedy by the author of "Little Old New York...
TIME Minneapolis, Minn. New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: I quote from TIME of Nov. 24: Who suddenly killed Cock Robin? "I did!" cried Minnesota.* "I marked him sure. I wounded him sore." Robin Red Grange, most brilliant of backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow lllini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged...
...suddenly killed Cock Robin? "I did!" cried Minnesota. "I marked him sure. I wounded him sore." Robin Red Grange, most brilliant of backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow Illini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged, pounded, plowed. Illinois sank back to third in the Conference standing. Score: Minnesota 20, Illinois...