Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Copycat. He was fascinated by the main architectural attraction-a sleek geodesic dome of gold-coated aluminum panels, 200 feet in diameter, abuilding at one end of the site. "This dome is really something," he chuckled again and again. He posed for pictures with some Italian workmen employed on the project, and called to Thompson: "Come and join me. After all, the Italians are your allies...
...been rubbers ever since he had been old enough to go outside on his own two feet. Vag wandered about his room, gathering together enough belongings to be properly dressed. Last of all, he searched out his rubbers and plunked himself into a chair...
...wonder where it will all end," mused Vag as he grappled with the problem of having two feet, two shoes and two rubbers, curiously divided into rights and lefts. Rubber days were never a happy experience for Vag. He always felt surly, humanly frail, and totally unsuccessful with Radcliffe on such occasions. No matter how effete he managed to appear, no matter what he said of wit, his rubbers always had the last word. They never failed to remind him that he was a twitch. Vag sighed several theatrical sighs, took a few lumbering steps for practice, and gamely...
...down his pen and quit taking notes. He heard no more of the lecture, he was too involved in the task of working his rubbers off his feet. He wiggled discreetly in his chair, pushing one heel against the other until, finally, his Cordovans stood naked to the world...
When the great Harvard bells clanged noon, Vag stole triumphantly away from his rubbers. He left Emerson D and ambled through the puddled Yard, smiling at one and all. And, from the Square on, Vag walked slowly home, his feet unencumbered and blissfully...