Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drop of 109 civilian undergraduates brings the enrollment in that category down to a low 893, with the 453 Freshmen forming the largest single class...
...condemns it in The Duke its lingering traces poison his biography with a wit which seems studied and dutiful, a shamefacedness before an unequivocal salute to a great man, and a hesitancy in striking out the dull gossip and malice. Only in his last chapters does Richard Aldington drop the irrelevancies of sophisticated comment and let himself go in praise of the "distant but steady beacon of common sense" whose simple words and direct actions glow through his book as they did through the anguished Europe of Wellington...
Example: when Yale's President Timothy Dwight the Younger demanded that English Instructor Cross drop his idea of giving a course in the "ungodly" and ''sexy" modern novel back in the mid-'gos Cross acquiesced. But he slyly observed that the study of Homer's Iliad woul 1 have to be abolished from courses in Greek, for the Iliad was obviously a story about the illicit intrigue between Paris and Helen. The next year Cross gave his course in the modern novel...
...hoped to use Professor Cross discovered quite early in the game that he was onto their curves. When he was petitioned in 1932 by the Democrats to serve as their political white hope, Wilbur Cross went to work as quietly as usual to get a questionable Waterbury Democrat dropped from the State ticket. Cross did not say he would not run if Daniel J. Leary was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. But he did insist that the nomination for Governor be held in abeyance until after the nomination of a candidate for second place on the slate. Worried by the thought...
When she dies, Danny makes the great decision, prepares to bum his way to bookloving Manhattan. He will never reach it in a Farrell novel: Novelist Farrell is about to drop Danny in favor of a new character named Bernard Claire. Farrell's next book will report Hero Claire's career among Manhattan's intellectuals during the boom years and the depression. Says Novelist Farrell slyly...