Word: cult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copoy, at Harvard since 1892 and active until 1928, established the "cult of Copey" soon after he started teaching. His method of instruction in English composition, carried on for the most part in his rooms at Hollis 15, occupied once by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and by Charles William Eliot, was described by Walter Lippmann '10, as a "catch-adcatch-can wresting match." Lippmann writing in the special CRIMSON issue released upon the occasion of Copey's 75th birthday, said of him: "Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person...
...lexicon of permissible slang Mrs. Post, who was once heard to describe a table layout as "lousy," adds such expressions as "O.K.." "swell," "divine," "and how!" "so what?" "you betcha." But she never hears "colyum," "ottawobile," "eggsit," "tomayto," "cult-your" (which she pronounces "cultcha")* in good society. Her pet hate: pretentious circumlocutions such as "permit me to assist you" instead of "let me help...
...blood of a dead bullock, black coolies scooping out elephant feet to make wastebaskets for the U.S. market. Cinematic Afrophiles will relish the rare, sleek okapi, a herd of sunbathing hippos, the giant Latukas whose hunters tower seven feet tall, and the mystic snake dance of the Mariari cult...
...tide clearance 100 ft. higher than Brooklyn Bridge's. The PWA refused to help, as did most banks. Then Amadeo Peter Giannini's Bank of America took the bonds which financed it.* These preliminaries at last over, the builders faced what Joe Strauss called "the most diffi cult engineering feat ever tackled." Three years of construction overcame this obstacle...
...this was just a slight sketch to let you know what can happen." Next day Father Divine was "tired." Over him hung not only the assault charge, which he and other Harlemites seemed to think would be difficult to make stick, but also charges against other members of his cult: that his coal truck drivers were dealing in bootleg coal; that a 13-year-old was being overworked in a Divine restaurant...