Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thereupon conceives the brilliant stunt of pawning the parrot to buy breakfast for the three. No sooner suggested than acted upon, but, alas, for fond dreams of ham and eggs, a bewilderingly beautiful Red Cross nurse takes the money received to feed the starving Russians. The three hungry men grow desperate, but Chubb comes through with another "idea". All weddings mean a deluge of gifts and Doctor. Hampton has a small army of relatives whose contributions might feed the starving for months. Hence it is up to the doctor to get married, or at least plan on getting married...
...Mary consents to play the game for a few minutes and the uncle takes her for the new member of the family. He immediately takes the bridal suite for the two on the Bermudan, sailing for the blessed isle of the onion, lily and bottled goods that evening. Things grow more and more strained, not to say tense, but the play goes on till a general showdown occurs on the deck of the ship and Mary decides that doctors aren't so bad; while her aunt discovers in the uncle a long lost lover...
...that Harvard has fallen heir to the slot machines in New York subways, the University ought tothem over to the Business School to administer. This will give the boys laboratory practice in the mismanagement of big affairs Incipient captains of industry who can make two sticks of gum grow where one grew before will be awarded their degrees "summa cum Wrigley." Then, too, the following little poem sung to any old tune that fits, can serve as the HBS national anthem...
...sending my two sons to Harvard in the single hope that they may get there something of what he got, but most of all that they may grow to be men like him." That man was Lionel Harvard...
...modern male still has a chance to pull himself from the disgraceful mire of effeminacy into which he has been steadily sinking since the razing of the Victorian forest primeval. Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M.P., has recently been warming the Atlantic cables with a revolutionary, proposal for all men to grow beards...