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...quantities of Brylereem, without batting an editorial eyelash. And now, a chance for Freshmen and Sophomores with latent extroversial qualities to develop them to the fullest, under the personal tutelage of the fastest talking pin-stripes in Cambridge. The CRIMSON comp opening tonight offers everyone a gift of the gab which can come in handy along other lines, 'He said, than journalistic ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scribes Extend Beery Gladhand to Would-Be Journalists | 11/25/1947 | See Source »

...Harvard Colledge. We do Hereby signifye to ye Corporation our Consent to their Proposal; Provided that in Case any Indians should. . . be sent to ye Colledge, they should enjoy their studies rent free in said building; This Dated in Boston, Sept. 19, 1695. Win. Stoughton Ch. Morton Wait Winthrop Gab Bernam Inc Mather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Raids Focus On Yard | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

...floppy hat piled out of a dusty sedan at the White House door last week, shook hands with the doorman, stopped to gab a while with the President's personal secretary and ambled in to see the boss. Harry Truman exclaimed, "Well, look who's back," and jumped up to pump the fat man's hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Regular Guys | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...threw away his boxing gloves and bought a black derby. For the next 50 years, at a saucy angle, the derby accompanied Jimmy Johnston and his winged gab through boxing's shady domain. Wearing neat dark suits, and never smoking nor touching whiskey, he hung out mostly at Lindy's, and talked a kind of gay illiteracy straight out of Damon Runyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man in a Derby | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Adult leaders used "guide sheets" (which they kept out of sight) to steer discussion groups ("huddles") through such intricate and disturbing topics as Hand Holding, Kissing, Necking, Petting, Love Play, Mating. One delegate explained: "It's like a gab session only more refined, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Bobby-Sox Convention | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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