Word: gad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People! Nov. 18! Ethel Barrymore and a cargo of Bronx cheers for every performance! Of all the - -* women she undoubtedly takes the highest honors. In truck drivers it is temper, in artists it is temperament. . . . A lady, gad...
...This lack of spirit in those days was a precious thing, and a contagious thing. Every Harvard team from football to chess reflected it, and lost gracefully to Yale with a consistency that enervated H men from the third story cheer leader to President Lowell. By Gad, there never was a class like 1925, and the old lack of spirit prompts one to rise up and demand that the College mend its ways. Are we men or are we mice? Come on, fellows. Let's get aport and not back the team the way we didn't back...
...David Graham Muschet Campbell's favorite boast that by Gad, sir, he knows how to ride a fractious horse. A Major-General, a K. C. B., Governor of the colony of Malta, his proudest moment was that spring day in 1896 when he won the Liverpool Grand National, a gentleman jockey, on The Soarer. In 1931 he was sent to handle a very fractious horse indeed, the island of Malta. Malta is Britain's most important naval base in the Mediterranean, but Malta is only 60 miles from Italy. Hundreds of Italian emigrants have settled there; most Maltese...
...college. Older professors sometimes "thee and thou" their students. Sundays there are "first-day meetings'' in the bare Quaker meeting house. The Swarthmore board of managers opens its sessions silently, does business by taking the ''sense of the meeting." Swarthmore students dress simply, do not gad about Philadelphia as much as students from Haverford and U. of P. The men meet nightly in the ''Cracker Room" in their main dormitory. No beer is sold. This year the Swarthmore girls voted to disband their sororities, to which 75% belonged. Alumnae protested and the matter...