Word: cribbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well. Whatever you do, Freshmen, don't be original. Be collegiate. Wear the right clothes at the right time. Think as few original thoughts as possible. It's collegiate to bull the prof. into a B when you rated a D. It's collegiate to sleep in lectures, crib in exams, copy themes, and get by. It's collegiate to prefer an Afro-American fox trot to a Beethoven sonata. Ah, by all means let's be collegiate. None of the herd will raise shocked hands and say begone miserable, radical, pink socialist...
...Cleveland, of Buffalo, N. Y., was beginning his second term as U S President when a man named Walter Platt Cooke, recently come of age, put his legal services in the Buffalo market. He knew Buffalo-it was about the only city he did know. It had supplied his crib, his rattle, his roller skates, his education- everything except an LL. B. degree which he had obtained from across the hills, at Cornell University...
...went to mass. That Christmas is still vividly remembered. Very few did not go to the Christmas mass. My father and a few others. . . . I remember I followed my mother. In the church there were many lights and on the altar, in a little flowered crib, the Child born in the night. It was all picturesque and it satisfied my fancy. The odor of the incense alone disturbed me so that sometimes it gave me unbearable discomfort. At last the notes of the organ closed the ceremony. The crowd swarmed out. Along the street was a satisfied chatter. At midday...
...trust in the country. I asked him to answer collect, but he didn't answer at all. I shall go to Washington soon, and then I shall have much to say about Taft and to his face if he will listen. Taft has been eating at the public crib since he was a boy in knickerbockers and it's time he took a vacation...