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...Chair Sally H. Men ’05 roofied him a while ago, but now G-squared is back and watching your every move in the Delphic basement... ... Fox boys aren’t too good at the logistics of random hookups. One newly initiated member, Barry G. Dreg ’08, left his Friday night hookup without his shoes (an essential item according to Gossip Guy). Dreg was then spotted at 9 a.m. passed out on the couch in the Quincy lobby. To add to the public spectacle, he was rudely awoken by Quincy Resident Dean, Prudence...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Gossip Guy | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...Harper; $4.50), starts at the turn of the century with a handful of corny characters in a Cornish setting, then marches through all the pomp, circumstance, sweat and tears of three generations of 20th century Britain. Playwright Chad Boothroyd, the hero, loves Rose Garland. Rose, a rather dreary dreg of tea, is invariably presented to the reader in a gown of crimson silk, which invariably seems to have a fetish effect upon Chad. Ultimately, Chad gets Rose, but only after she 1) lives with Eustace Hawke, a sensational poet with more than an overtone of Rupert Brooke about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...operated by flippant, teen-age boys & girls or by deaf old gaffers. The call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have shined his shoes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Frills | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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