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...hard gamers within the house argue that despite all the mockery that assassin typically invites, it represents one of the best ways to foster house spirit in Quincy. Just as Dunster has their traditional goat roast and Kirkland has its evening of Shakespeare, we have our assassin...
...Capri pants are casual women s slacks which reach to the lower calf. The term derives from capric acid, an organic acid (C10H20O2) found as a glyceride in goat fat. Capri pants earned their name in England in the 1920s when a gentleman remarked that a woman wearing ankle-length summer pants looked like a pudgy goat...
...have is much more like that between old friends who know that despite all the nagging annoyances, letters can still be written, and they will still be read, no matter how cranky they may be. So what makes our readers testy? Here's a sampling of what gets their goat...
...Germans, he wrote acerbically, could not possibly pay what the victors were demanding. Calling Wilson a "blind, deaf Don Quixote" and Clemenceau a xenophobe with "one illusion--France, and one disillusion--mankind" (and only at the last moment scratching the purple prose he had reserved for Lloyd George: "this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity"), an outraged Keynes prophesied that the reparations would keep Germany impoverished and ultimately threaten all Europe...
...House residents extol the virtues of a strong nighttime grill, in addition to the annual Goat Roast at which students, yup, roast a goat in the House courtyard and enjoy the warm spring weather. Presiding over Dunster since the late 1980s, Master Karel F. Liem, Bigelow professor of ichthyology, and co-Master Hetty Liem open their home each year to the company of the Dunster House Opera, which requires a place to change costumes between scenes...