Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more genteel, than a direct message, for I am by no means as sure that he reads all my letters as that he reads all of TIME. . . . I'm going to be wholly frank with you, in full confidence that you will not take advantage of a fellow's straightforwardness. I intend, if all else fails, to send you five dollars before Jan. 1. That's how desperate I am. ROSCOE MACY...
...called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more sprightly than oafish malice. . . . It is a platitude that clumsy humor is perhaps the most painful thing to behold this side of eternal damnation. You blush for the fellow who tries it, and feel that he has done something equivalent to appearing in public without his breeches. ... It bears the Harvard name and reflects on Harvard...
...Larkin Tower will say, "Look at me." Homesick Americans all over the world will extoll this newest of Gotham's wonders; and if some stranger should ask, "Who is this Larkin? Some great general of yours?" they will stop a moment and reply, "Why no, he's the fellow who built it, I suppose...
...glass of beer behind the bar (as he was too self-conscious to do in his Oxford days) he drew a foaming schooner. "Your health!" he tasted the foam, then left the glass up on the bar where eager hands seized, drained it. "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" roared the bums. Perhaps abashed, Edward drifted toward the door, passed through the crowd with several handshakes and a jest. Thend sought a moment's respite...
Making rich men and poor men think alike was henceforth his great aim, which he pursued with a lively, pioneering use of the terms, "team work," "co-operation," "the other fellow's slant." Banal enough on other tongues, these terms apparently possessed charm when rolled forth with lively persistence by a member of the St. Andrews and Burns Societies. Unlike most go-betweens, Editor Forbes escaped being crushed; was instead raised on high by opposing pressures...