Word: crabbedness
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The completely unbossed attitude of a large part of this country with regard to Harvard affairs was shown recently by the author of one of those mass production, pre-fabricated political columns called, "The National Whirl gig." At the time of the Tercentenary, when even the most crabbed of Boston...
That morning on the Theatre's stage President Conant. flanked by President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell and by Harvard's oldest living graduate, a 95-year-old Boston lawyer named Henry Munroe Rogers (Class of 1862), blared his welcome to the alumni through two giant loudspeakers. He then...
The suspicion that the management has been hitting below the belt in getting its charges included on the term bill shows a lamentable lack of understanding on the part of these "conscientious" objectors. The term bill is the natural place for all such college charges, from room rent to beer...
It is characteristic of all Santayana's writing that the weightiest subjects are handled with lightness and grace. The Last Puritan, no exception, contains amusing portraits of crabbed New Englanders. sophisticated New Yorkers, self-important Englishmen, sentimental Germans, to temper the gravity of the tale. It also contains extended...
Malcontents who remarked last winter in their peculiarly crabbed manner that no matter what his sins Franklin D. Roosevelt will go right through the Pearly Gates in the Sourmahal must be feeling particularly acute qualms during the present vacation of the President.