Word: fag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where those august troopers from the Theatre Guild are playing "Reunion in Vienna", a truly delightful piece. The play does not deal with a college reunion. There are no middle-aged babies congregating to let off animal spirits. This reunion, on the contrary, is a coming together of the fag ends of an exiled Austrian aristocracy who hope to spend their last pennies laughing and weeping in their beloved Vienna, before braving another decade of hardworking exile in a cruel post-war world. On the stage there is a reunion of some of the best dramatic talent, moving lightly about...
...Vagabond has never followed after the things of the body. He has confined himself chiefly to the less corporeal activities of the mind and intellect. Of late days, however, what with the warm weather and the fag end of the year, he has found the intellect altogether wanting. He decided that it was high time he learned something about the physical set up of mankind...
Although "fagging" has been abolished at some institutions, many a middle and upper-class Englishman likes to believe that the rigors of public school life fit youngsters to become Backbone-of-the-Empire. Evidence of the childish cruelty which Fag Fairhurst was made to suffer was given at the coroner's inquest...
Asked by the coroner to describe the routine to escape which Fag Fairhurst had killed himself, one witness explained: "Each new boy is expected to do 20 'fags' or acts of service, a week. Each new boy is asked to do these 'fags' for a prefect who in some cases is in a lower form. The 'fags' are expected to run at the call of a prefect, and the first arrival receives a mark and the others receive no marks. Each boy runs 50 times and is expected to make 20 marks a week...