Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marx, a fresh-air fiend as well as culture fan, likes to bask in the sun on winter days at the bottom of his swimming pool, which is drained in September. There he sits puffing six-inch cigars (Jack & Charlie's "21" Selection), dictating letters to his Audiograph or reading a dictionary and marking the words and phrases he wants to transfer to his vocabulary. These are later typed by a secretary in a series of black books that Marx carries everywhere, studies in idle moments. For an hour, three or four times a week, he dons sneakers, a grey...
...most Crimson teams success is measured in terms of an undefeated season, an Ivy League championship, or a Big Three title. But for the long frustrated Harvard basketball fan a won-lost record anywhere in the vicinity of .500 will bring unexpected...
...first Saturday in November, the rains came, and the Crimson line stood up to the Tigers, and the final score was Harvard 7-6. The old November spirit had returned, and the jubilant Crimson fan looked forward to the Yale game with a sly grin. It looked like '54 over again. Brown was up for its game and beat Harvard, 14-6, but that didn't matter much. For it was Yale next, but it was also Yale last. If the Crimson had beaten the Elis, the season would still have been a season of fond remembrance, the fair...
...hearty football fan who has endured the elements all season once again found himself at odds with the weather today. All the combined efforts of the 60,000 Harvard and Yale fans who were due to arrive by today could not keep away the inevitable wet. Today's variety was not equal to the torrents which saturated the Eli rooters during the Cornell game, and the Crimson fans during the Columbia and Princeton games, but it was of the most annoying variety--a soft mixture of snow and rain, finally changing to snow at game time...
...football team this season has been one big disappointment as far as the Harvard fan is concerned. It started its schedule by crushing UMass, 60-6, but with the exception of the Columbia victory in New York, it has been very sluggish on both offense and defense...