Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belt. Most of the material for it was jotted down in hundreds of conversa tions with Negroes and white people. It begins with the cacophonous Mardi Gras saturnalia of "Kings, Baby Dolls. Zulus and Queens'' (Baby Dolls are Negro trulls, Zulus are their men friends who elect a Negro King of the Mardi Gras). It ends with "Superstitions," "Colloquialisms" and "Customs." In between, the book's 581 pages are acrawl with underworld or otherworld manifestations...
Oxford has seen no new Rhodes scholars since 1939. The ?2,000,000 that Empire Builder Cecil John Rhodes left Oxford* in 1902 has piled up interest during the war. Unable to elect the usual 68 scholars a year (32 from the U.S., 34 from British colonies and dominions, two from Germany), Rhodes's trustees have saved up for a scholarship spending spree...
...They elected a President. Not since 1930 had the people voted for a President in Brazil. The man they did not elect that time, Getulio Vargas, took office anyway-by revolution-and overstayed his leave. Now, by staging the biggest popular election in Latin American history, Brazilians had marked the end of the long dictatorship and had set the stage for a fuller democracy than any they had ever enjoyed...
...Somerset, Pa.: couldn't we ding Marshall Field for some other reason than the effect of competition? Replied an A.P. lawyer: it was a little late to think up new reasons. Member McCormick summed it up: "The Court will hold us in contempt if we don't elect the "applicants. Therefore. I second the motion...
Cowen, now definitely captain-elect, comes from a family of Harvard football players. His father, Rawson Cowen, Sir., made the team in 1915; his brother Tom played in the backfield of the 1942 squad, last Crimson aggregation to meet Yale until this year's eleven...