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...well past curfew when a Cambridge University proctor, making his dignified, unhurried rounds in search of undergraduate truants, spotted two G.I.s emerging from a pub. The "bullers" (proctor's legmen) got set to grab their silk hats* and give chase. But the Americans held their ground. When he was close enough to speak without raising his voice, the proctor tipped his .mortarboard in greeting and put the traditional progging question: "Sir, are you a member of the University?" One of the G.I.s nudged his companion and demanded loudly, beerily, and in approximately these words: "Say, Eddie...
Born Yesterday brings Brock to Washington, where he has bought a Senator, to try to grab off junk yards all over the postwar world. He installs himself, his henchman and his dumb blonde mistress in a fantastic $235-a-day hotel suite. Since there will be forays into official Washington society, he decides that the blonde had better get educated. His choice of a teacher is a crusading young writer on the New Republic. From there on everything in the play is predictable, but piquant. The young woman, who defines peninsula as "that new medicine," is soon taught words like...
...Chicago last week, the American Association of Junior Colleges heard warnings that quack, fly-by-night schools and colleges are springing up all over the U.S.-most of them hoping to grab veterans, who are each allowed $500 tuition under the G.I. Bill of Rights...
...grab your palls and swab your decks
...blame for the present disagreement lies more with the western nations than with the Soviets. So far, America and England have followed a simple principle in their dealings; they have agreed to 'grab, and let the other fellow grab.' This resulted in establishment of British spheres of influence in Greece and Iran, and of Russian spheres in Romania and Yugoslavia...