Word: goose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Goo-Goos" and K.K.K. Tenement-born son of an immigrant hod carrier. Curley came to boyhood while the Brahmins ran Boston and the want ads read: "No Irish need apply." He decided that politics was the quickest vehicle to carry him from shanty to lace curtains, developed two tricks to...
Curley was 25 when the Irish elected him to Boston's common council. At 27. marshaling more toughs than the opposition and able to steal more ballot boxes, he was boss of Ward 17. At 40, after roasting Brahmin ''Goo-Goos" of the Good Government Association, he...
But the Student Council report on dining halls forecast an era of milk and honey and ice cream sauce. Since Harvard's staple is ice cream, caramel, butterscotch, chocolate and other goos would be a welcome addition. They have appeared too rarely, so far. Board rates have risen about ten...