Word: grabblestump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America's future lies in the hands of the young men of today. Of what stuff are these young men composed? In order to adequately split this infinitive and answer this question, we shall trace the career of a type specimen, Carlos Cantilever Grabblestump, Harvard...
...Born in the little town of Olive Oil. New Jersey, in 1912, Mr. Grabblestump passed an uneventful childhood spending his summers in Sidetrack, Connecticut, or Bar Harbor, and his winters in grammar school or the Reformatory. A common or garden variety of child was he, the kind that hides his food under his knife to feel his mother. His career in the secondary scats of learning was also uneventful, its monotonous rhythm being broken only by occasional changes of school on request of the headmasters, and flying visits to the jailhouse. Entering college Carlos ran for a while like...
...Next year, having preformed the stupendous, death-defying leap from Dropped Sophomore on Probation to Junior in good standing, young Grabblestump strolled about with a superb assurance and aplomb, only to dart into concealment as his trained car detected the far-off strains of the old hunting song, 'Who hasn't paid the Big Bad Wolff?' All of his Senior year was focused on one brief...
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