Word: hake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week before, a busy little Bucknell team had trounced Penn State; Penn had melted the famed "Iron Men"* from brown. There could be little doubt of a victory for Penn, which was odd because Hake, Monk, Olexy, the Brothers Scull, Wascolonis, etc. of Penn were worthless before Delph, Pannaccion, Roepke, Hamas, etc. of Penn State. Score...
...lands in his lap. They marry and live in Gluten, N. Y. Divorce ensues. Queen Marie sings "Dat watahmelyon hangin' on de vine." He marries a Swiss called Geezle. He reforms the theatre by undressing the audience. In the last chapter, not without justice, he dies fishing for hake, suggesting posthumously and provocatively that it was stomach hake...
...Stomach Hake" "Even to this day," confesses Funnyman Lardner,* "the first week in March is set aside in Niles [Mich.] as 'Have a Baby Week.'" He came in there like a lion one March "before they had horses and boats and when you wanted to go from one town to another, you had to take a train." Graduates of the Lytton Strachey school of informal biography may suspect Mr. Lardner of shoving fun at their alma mater, the way he takes liberties with prominent names and dates in trying to solve the enigma of himself in an intimate...