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Blue makes friends with Man Jay, the settlement's bad boy and with Cooch, the bad little girl who knows "where babies come from and everything." Best of all he likes Cricket, a little orphaned "bright skin" girl, half white, half black. She lives with Blue's Uncle Wes and his wife Missie, works in the cotton fields, whips the okra bushes to make them bear. Everybody prophesies a bad end for the "bright skin," warns Blue to keep away from...
...Staplers Club of the Business School is scheduled to have its next dance on March 4 at the Longwood Cricket Club. Members will be admitted free, this privilege being extended also to members of the Gaydon Club; there will be a charge of $3 stag or $4 a couple for guests...
Loyal Harvard men will perhaps be moved by the accusation that the University in transferring other people's hot air in its pipes would be acting ultra vires. That would surely not be cricket; Lowell House would protest if others...
Conductor Jaroff, small and spry as a cricket, is the chorus' most compelling individual on & off stage. Last year's audiences marked also with special interest Cossack Tierekov, a bass said to have the lowest voice on record, and Cossack Ovtchinikov, whose falsetto is so high that the Don Cossacks are often suspected of concealing a woman in their ranks. Hostesses who entertained the Russians last year or who hired them as performing bears for parties, will remember: handsome Cossack Magnuschensky, the lady-killer, Cossack Kolesnikoff, a bright, understanding little fellow who has a score of anecdotes ready...
...bolder than the left. First to emerge from the sheltering shell after a fright is the right head. That head usually makes the first snatch at food. Food always causes a contention between the heads. One tries to pull food from the other. They tug until the fly, cricket, or scrap of meat tears apart...