Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valuable proctor is the discreet proctor, who remains wary but unobtrusive. He will preferably sit silently in some advantageous spot, or if he must walk, proceed on egg-shells, like a friendly phantom. He will also refrain from stage whispers with his colleagues. Indeed, the prevalence of inter-proctor communication has raised doubts that the College needs so many of these hirelings. But assuming that all proctors are necessary, it is hardly too much to ask that they be carefully instructed to act like guardian angels, instead of hotel detectives...
...problems something had to be done. Complete divorce of the two institutions was out of the question: Dean Buck, in a special report to the Faculty in March, 1943, remarked on "the historic fact that Radcliffe has grown up under the shadow of Harvard, and something of a 'scrambled egg' exists. Divorce initiated by Harvard would mean the destruction of Radcliffe as a fist-class college, and I do not quite see how we could justify such a consequence of any action Harvard might take...
Blandly, at first, the Russians spelled out the ostensible reason for such severities. They were decreed "in the interest of expediting travel." Then egg-bald Colonel Alexander Tulpanov indicated why the Russians were jittery. He thundered to a German audience: "Spies from the British and American zones come in masses to Berlin and from there into the Soviet zone to carry out economic, political and military espionage...
...Blandings Builds His Dream House (Selznick; RKO Radio), like the original bestseller by FORTUNE Editor Eric Hodgins, is a sort of rich man's Egg and I: a comedy natural for all big city dwellers who have ever tried to get back to the land the easy way. It all starts off with the woes of Adman Jim Blandings (Gary Grant) & wife (Myrna Loy) as they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans...
...Sweet Song. The golden egg hatched by sage Mother Goudge is different and much more endearing. Here, the lecherous and predatory decadence of the New World is forgotten in the leafy byways of the Old Country; here, quotations are culled only from the sunny hedgerows of George Meredith, Shakespeare, The Wind in the Willows. World War II-the one which was caused by all the irresponsible behavior described by ardent Father Haydn-is over at last, and Britons are exhausted...