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Burke hopes to get an Activities Coordinator installed early next fall, so that the pre-election months will not see too much fist-fighting and epithet-slinging in the neighborhood of the Yard...
Neighbors remember Clifford as a shy boy with "a mass of golden ringlets," who sold Saturday Evening Posts and sang in the Episcopal choir. He was never any trouble. Like most good little boys, he suffered under the inevitable epithet of "sissy." At St. Louis' Washington University he played juvenile leads in college shows. His casting in these parts always caused lively competition from girls who wanted to play opposite him. Then, as now, he was 6 ft. 2 in., very symmetrical, with rippling, taffy-colored hair. He played tennis and sang baritone in the glee club. Toward...
...prove that someone else wrote Shakespeare's plays, describing and mimicking that maid-of-all-work, Fielding's Shamela Andrews, or stepping into the role of Charles Lamb's lunatic sister, this jovial son of Maine injects humor, pathos, and human interest into lectures that have earned him the epithet, "a one-man vaudeville show...
Skirting the fundamental deficiencies which prevent the House Plan from fulfilling its design, the University's $6000 allocation to each House for permanent physical improvements nevertheless represents a concrete step toward conquering the epithet of "glorified dormitories." The stated purpose of the expenditure is to "improve the livability" of the Houses and make men residing in them feel that they belong to an institution of educational fellowship--with more to offer than room and board. While few harbor delusions about the extent to which a $42,000 outlay can revitalize the House Plan, this is at the same time...
...involving a Quaker widow and two clients of her boarding house: the famous, dashing Senator Burr of New York and a shot, clumsy congressman called James Madison. After spirited oratory, the relatively meek Madison inherits the landlady, later to become immortalized in song and story under the somewhat shady epithet of "Dolly...