Word: fusser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andy Protheroe is the midwestern brother of Stover's immortal ally, Doc MacNooder. Breezy, flippant, crass, unquenchable, he now, in the day of elective courses, appears as the perennial senior; and, rough clothes and manners having gone out, as campus: fashion-plate and ladies' man (snake, fusser, petter, necker, lizard, sheik, as you will). He retains the MacNooder eloquence and syncopates it, polishing his quips for quotation, studying his audience. MacNooder's political finesse is his, refined and extended even unto sorority elections. His rostrum is at the mass meeting, in front of the grandstand...
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