Word: conning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Hoover had hardly been elected by his Stanford mates as the "graduate most likely to succeed." In college he had managed a student laundry and a newspaper agency. He had flunked German and English in the entrance exams, and didn't write off a con in English until his senior year. But this ponderous and solumn Iowan had introduced a scheme for handling athletic, social, and campus organization funds that eliminated waste and graft to a "T". Few people noticed that he was also a wizard with a slide rule and geology maps...
Summary of Concentrators comments on men in the German Department: Walz, Howe, Lieder, Cawley older men in the department who are authorities in their field but tend to be rather uninspiring to undergraduates as lecturers. Starck--clear lecturer, con- genial. Heffner--stimulating, gives the literary angle. Nolte--good tutor (especially for divisional), knows his literature, material somewhat disorganized in German 6. Herrick--stimulating personality. Hawkes--progressive, interesting, good in composition courses. Cross--brilliant and interesting, the power of the Department. Vietor--good lecturer. Shelley--good younger tutor
Salty sentiment, miniature suspense, and tuneful nonsense combine to make of Shirley Temple's "Captain January" a truly delightful morsel. Miss Temple is a sufficiently important national figure to have given rise to some pretty rabid opinion, both pro and con. At times perhaps there is a little too much of the demonstrative cherubim about her. There might even be some basis for the allegations that she is losing her figure. But when people start calling her a major menace, just put them down as being a little too emotional about their unemotionalism...
...Wisconsin State Journal is concerned, the libel was not softened by attributing the claim to "Meanwell protagonists." In presenting news reports of Wisconsin's great unpleasantness, the State Journal hewed to the line, was neither pro nor con anything or anybody. After both doctors had been dismissed, it did editorially crack down on the athletic board for painting Spears dark black, Meanwell lily white, upholding the board of regents' contention that the aspersions cast on Spears were unfair and unjustified...
...aged don fell in love. Her younger daughter wanted to leave home, go to the U. S. with her rich aunt. Her husband at last, and on his own, landed a promising job. All these things upset Claudia. After pretending to herself that she had carefully considered pro and con, she did her domineering best to put a stop to all of them. And if she had not been a bad driver, and had not been so tired one rainy night, she might have succeeded. It would have seemed blasphemous even to think it, but with Claudia...