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...kept in high gear, had to have someone sitting beside the driver to hold the gearshift. This need for a companion in his car, Hackney feels, may have helped Stevenson gain sixth place, in a field of 22, in the yearbook classification, "Thinks He Is the Biggest Fusser [i.e., Ladies' Man]." Hackney and Stevenson toured Spain in the summer of 1921, several times got into trouble when the locals mistook Stevenson's friendly remarks, delivered in faulty Spanish, for insults; after one such misunderstanding, the travelers were ejected from Burgos at bayonet point...
...light for football, Sherman made the fencing team, was pronounced by the Lucky Bag "supreme as a fusser [a genteel wolf] and yard reptile [a midshipman who squires the daughters of Annapolis captains and admirals]." He was also something of a teacher's pet. When a classmate asked a difficult question, the instructor would have Sherman stand up and reel off the answer. Sherman stood second in the wartime Class of 1918, which graduated a year ahead of its time. As the new ensign hurried off to war, the Lucky Bag summarized: "Forrest Percival has been the object...
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...
There will be in all twenty dances. The Delta west of the hall will be fenced in and decorated with bay and spruce trees, Japanese lanterns, etc.; and boxes to hold from three to seven couples will be constructed and appropriately decorated. "Fusser's Delight," a section at the extreme west of the Delta, will be enlarged this year so as to meet the expected demand. An orchestra in the hall will alternate with a band on the Delta, so there a will always be something doing from 8 to 1. There will be no supper dance as refreshments will...
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