Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rowdyism. In an Oxford restaurant, a typical evening's fun begins with throwing of bread pellets, proceeds to butter pats, poulet en casserole, a huge chunk of smoked salmon, and ends with undergraduates pulling table legs from the tops. "When I was last in one of these restaurants the majority of the women present had enveloped themselves as far as possible in napkins and tablecloths...
...Hygiene Department most of all, wants to take all the fun out of college. Amusing incidents, companionable joshing, and downright merriment are desirable, not only to make these four years memorable in later life, but to relax from the rigors of studying and even to make more digestible some of the dining hall meals. Dr. Bock and his associates are in full accord with keeping their undergraduate charges happy by jokes or any other decent means, for happiness and health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here...
...astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police and for Nihilists, reported on each to the other and had to maintain card files to keep his machinations straight); represents the fun-loving, light-witted Alfonso XIII of Spain (chiefly notable during his reign for his gambols on the Riviera, his gambling at Deauville) as a monarch "cool, determined . . . dauntless," generally much misunderstood...
...boisterous Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was last week plunking his oratorical hardest for the Democratic slate in a city election for four job-dispensing offices-controller, treasurer, coroner, register of wills -for all of which the Democrats were conceded a better-than-even chance. Mayor Wilson had most fun with two rich but politically unsophisticated socialites who undertook to revive Philadelphia's Republican organization-City Chairman Jay Cooke, descendant of the Civil War financier, and Vice President Joseph Newton Pew Jr.. of Sun Oil Co., who financed Wilson's last mayoralty campaign. Cried the irrepressible mayor...
Chocolate bars for quick-energy food and an alarm clock will be the principle items in Buder's kit. His last words before retiring for some rest were, "It's going to be a lot of fun." He admitted, then that there is only one way the bet can be called off--if he gets arrested for speeding