Word: ego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That left only one thing for Reynoldstown to do: gallop comfortably past the screaming grandstand, 12 lengths in front of Ego. He did so and became the first horse to win the Grand National at Aintree two years in a row since The Colonel...
Could it be that the anonymous reviewer, who so plainly admires Mr. Laughlin, is none other than Mr. Laughlin? And that the clever and capable Mr. Laughlin has found in Crimson columns an overt means of patting his own ego? For Mr. Laughlin's benefit I suggest that the Crimson run a special series on Mr. Laughlin, entitled "Looking Across at Laughlin" and written, of course, by Mr. Laughlin. Robert Hatch '33 (1st year Graduate Student...
Ethiopia's Emperor, advised by his Maine Yankee alter ego, Mr. Everett Colson, set the counter trap of demanding in a cablegram to Geneva that The Deal be scrutinized by the entire League Assembly in which minor nations have the majority, though they have never dared to make effective use of it. If once he could get 40 or even 30 little nations squawking. Emperor Haile Selassie knew they could be counted on to make the world's welkin ring in his favor...
...disease of the mind brought by resignation to the monotony of institutionalization. Now, time, considered abstractly, is nothing. Man is the only animal who seems to be cognizant of it, and even then only finds it a means of measuring the lapse between the incidents which occur to his ego, and thus give him an identity in life. It is the lack of individuality of the ingredients which go to form institutional life which foster and aggravate "stir-simple"-ness. It is by keeping abreast of the times and keeping alive my interest in my country and the world that...
...sidelight," Glen Gray remarked, "it may interest you to know that my real family name is Glen Gray Knoblauch. We decided to drop the last for commercial reasons, but the boys helped out my ego by adding a Spike...