Word: em
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road, the Hawks are loudly booed for their knock-'em-down-again style. They have racked up a grand total of 701 min. in the penalty box, second only to the hot tempered Detroit Red Wings, but they deny all accusations of dirty play. "It's just that we check so close," says Defenseman Wayne Hillman. "Just call it rough." When a Chicago player pounds into an opponent, it is not merely to take him out of a play; it is meant to wear him down, maybe hurt him a little, so that in the final period, when...
While Pee & Em Are Away. It is a nightmare world Alex lives in, and readers of Constantine FitzGibbon and George Orwell will place the time roughly between When the Kissing Had to Stop and this side of 1984. Only the lewdies (the old) read any more and "newspapers not being read much neither." There is universal social security. The millicents (police) are everywhere. Russia is the dominant influence (the pop singers are Berti Laski and Johnny Zhivago), and it is suggested that Alex and his dreadful droogs (gangmates) get their Russian-based special vocabulary by subliminal propaganda. Life for Alex...
...Uncle Jack is much too busy at Leavitt and Peirce's to attend to your simple needs (Cousin Thelma wasn't at ali pleased with those personalized kitchen matches, you will remember). What, then, is to be done? Well, how about a record for once? We've heard 'em all, and if you'll sit very still, and promise not to fidget, we'll tell you what you want to hear...
Children line up in huge labyrinths (or sneak out when they can) to visit the two, count 'em: 2, Santas. In the interests of gathering first-hand experience, one CRIMSON reporter joined in the fun. In response to her sincere requests for a modest number of presents, a heavily made-up Santa smiled coldly...
Frost returned often to the music of poems, saying that the music was chiefly in the connections of ideas. "The greatest interest of all to me is making 'em a different tune every time; that's why I don't write more than two a week...