Word: copey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mark of the successful down-east trader. Across the desk he is deliberate and exceedingly mild in mien and expression. This softness of speech must not be taken for timidity, as a generation of Crimson candidates will testify. But Durant is no legendary tyro out of the Copey mold. Rather he is a businessman-engineer working at the earth-bound business of maintaining Harvard's wealth of real facilities...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland-"Copey" to nearly three generations of Harvardmen who listened to his literary readings-reached 86 in Cambridge, Mass., suffering "only occasional doubts" that he would...
...Hoping for Kitty, or Copey, or Bliss...
...referring to three of the University's most outstanding and revered teachers: the late George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland, and Bliss Perry. Of this famed English department triumvirate, Professors Copeland and Perry and emeritus; sometimes "Copey," (who now asks, with feigned disgust "why do you keep the Copey legend alive?") gives one of his spectacular readings for the Freshman class...
Late in April, the University announced a relaxation in entrance requirements to facilitate veteran admission, the Law School having already taken that step by itself. And in the same week, as Copey celebrated his 85th birthday, the College reported that Kirkland House, occupied by the Navy since the summer of 1943, would be opened to civilians this summer...