Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been? The Vagabond plowed on through the snow, clean because it was almost as newly-arrived in Cambridge as Vag was. On December 17 he had taken the train for New York, two days early, looking forward to the usual gay, and liquid round. But it hadn't been the same; the old gang wasn't there and every girl Vag met knew some neat guy fighting in the Pacific, which made him feel sharply his own unheroic role. Maybe he ought to join the air corps right away and get sent to the Philippines. "Vag send Jap bomber down...
Well, after all, he had been prepared for the war, hadn't he? The headlines and speeches and buttons and proclamations had brought it closer and closer; everybody had seen it coming. He might have known the vacations would change, like all else. He would have to change, too, would Vag; he'd develop a stern and realistic attitude and wear a V pin and make sacrifices, because everyone else was. What could he do to help--take a First Aid course maybe, or donate a pint of blood? Brrr! He didn't like the idea of a big, thick...
...looked up and saw his roommate leaning out of the window. "Let's go to Dirty's and have a milkshake; I'll come right down." Vag stood waiting, kicking the crust off the snow. Dirty Mary's hadn't changed, anyhow, reading period hadn't, notes from the Dean's office hadn't and the U.T. hadn't. Things would go on, he reflected; we'd just have to put on a little more pressure. What was it Sir Francis Drake had said--something like "We'll have our milkshake at Dirty's and lick the Japs...
...down with a book. It wasn't the first time he had ever performed that simple action, but somehow he hadn't found himself turning pages so frequently this year. He couldn't understand how the days went flipping past so fast. This week, for instance. He'd read three picture magazines, been to two movies, spent one evening at Wellesley, and frittered away three nights in McBrides, quietly getting drunk over discussions of sex with some friends...
...Steinbeck, and W. H. Auden and MacNeice. (MacNeice? MacNeice? Never heard of him. But Steinbeck wrote "Of Mice and Men" and he had seen that in the movies.) About Dreiser and Dostoevski and Proust and Flaubert and Sterne and someone named George Borrow. Vag felt dumber and dumber. He hadn't known there were so many damn authors in the world he hadn't read. About Gide. Vag thought he was the bird who wrote the French 6 textbook, but he wasn't sure. About the young Radical Poets of England and Gerald Manley Hopkins...