Word: dropper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's all the more striking about those thousand freshmen razzing the tray-dropper is that nobody ever told them to. Nobody ever sat down and said at a proctor group's meeting, "If you see someone trip and send their lunch flying all over the Union and get embarrassed, you should give them sarcastic applause so you can make them feel even more stupid." It was as if the whole thing happened by instinct, as if people who end up at Harvard have a second sense about trashing each other...
...loss broke Harvard's six-game winning streak and dropper, the team to 12-7 overall. Holy Cross...
...multitude of sweets. The immediate impulse is to scurry out and tell your friends all about it. One gets much the same feeling from reading Lords Ladies and Gentlemen, the memoirs of Clifton Daniel. Daniel acts the adult equivalent of the kid in the candy shop as a name dropper of the first order...
Students who met Hampton during his strange visit Harvard described him yesterday as a brilliant liar and constant name dropper...
...pocketing a slip of paper upon which were written the idyllic figures $1,000,000. His invention was a "quarter-in-the-slot" machine. Out of it comes, not gum or hairpins, but a strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike. The pictures are photographed direct upon sensitized paper. To make a strip of eight pictures requires only eight minutes. A syndicate of men successful enough to know a real gold brick when they see one-including onetime Ambassador to Turkey...