Word: frigidities
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...esoteric nonsense-verse. The Dunster House Matron of Morsels will entertain as black-face comedienne, in her inimitable interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...
Very neat . . . . very pretty . . . . Shepley, Bullfinch, Abbott, Lowell, Abbott. Bullfinch and Shepley. . . .I hear the head tutor at. Dunster has an ice box. . . .the infant of Spain is that way . . . .whoops, dearie the frigid heir. . . . well, just a small bowful if Gale has it . . . .I tell you I'm off it. . . .practically . . . .where's the house named for the second president?. . . .Ohoooo. . . .I see . . . .hey, when, when, I tell you I'm off it....where the jesuchristo are my dress studs?. . . .where the ditto are my pumps?....has the head tutor also got pumps and studs for his tutees?....lousy...
...shown at a dinner party, given during Kiel Regatta shortly before the great war by Kaiser Wilhelm II, aboard his imperial yacht to Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The Kaiser was in a bad humor and inclined to be coldly polite. Mr. Morgan, sensing the frigidity, became frigid too. But not so the genial Sir Thomas! His joviality and high spirits soon thawed everything and everybody, most of all the Kaiser himself, whom he all but patted on the back. Wilhelm rocked with laughter as Sir Thomas regaled him with a long stream of anecdotes, including...
...which separates India from Tibet, the party claims an altitude of 28,150 ft. They rank it next to Everest, world's undisputed highest. In this they differ with the Royal Geographical Society, which ranks K2 (Godwin-Austen)' second with its 28,250 ft., Kanchenjunga third. To negotiate this frigid, wind-beaten giant they will establish six camps spaced along the peak's last 10,000 ft. Husky Sherpas porters will strap 68 Ib. packs on their broad shoulders, grease their faces to ward off the erosive wind, fight their way upward through the rare air a few feet...
They played a college ball game down at Soldiers Field yesterday but the two teams involved did everything in their power to make the fifty odd spectators think otherwise. The Harvard and Bates nines played through nine innings of frigid baseball and Harvard won the decision 14 to 9, just because Bates was the better philanthropist...