Word: flips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With acute insight and poignant character interpretation, she portrays the Vassar girls you've met at House dances and chatted with on the lawns at Poughkeepsie. There's Flip, editor of the Vassar Review, who wants to write but isn't sure of her talent. Gary, once the child prodigy poetess, is now a harried girl facing expulsion for having tried to cheat her way into Phi Beta Kappa to fulfill her father's expectations. Jill, who is blonde and beautiful and brainless, wants the bright lights of the stage; Liz serious and restrained, wants the security of a wedding...
Yesterday a new type of football hero earned his free ticket to Valhalla. Phil Alexander '42, double-flip expert and cheerleader-extraordinary, pulled a tendon while doing a "today's acrobatic special...
...tortuous twistings of the Student Union line have been hard enough to follow in the last few years. Last night's flip-flop, one might imagine, should have proved a little difficult for even the most hardened joy-riders in the cab of the famous Locomotive of History. The Executive Committee's report, however, passed with all the ease and speed of a motion to adjourn. The Union found itself unanimously agreed that "the goal of all persons wishing to preserve democracy and the freedom of the peoples of the world must be the military defeat of Hitler...
...officer throttled his little wife viciously; she pinned his ears to the floor. He came back kicking and swinging; she treated him to a shoulder shrug, a slight wrist twist and a hip flip. Westgate sailed through the air. "Ooooo," said the audience. Detroit's toughest cop was taken to the hospital with a broken leg and twisted tendons. Said his remorseful wife: "I never wanted to learn those tricks. . . . I feel trembly and just awful. . . . I've never hurt him before. It was lack of wall space. I had no perspective in that big hall...
...that free-style gap is plugged, if the breaststroke division continues to show improvement and if Senior Art Bosworth can flip over on his back and score important wins in two or three meets. Harvard will have a very successful tank season...