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...supporting this major bit of tradition, the undergraduates, aided and abetted by the CRIMSON, beat the inevitable tattoo on the hapless skull of the H.A.A. The subject? Ticket distribution, of course. From the first game, when it was claimed that non-University personnel sat in cheering section seats, to the last, when inept distribution of tickets was alleged, the Athletic Association was on the receiving end of a steady drum-fire of adverse publicity...
...Gertrude did not hesitate to drag in characters of other eras-notably a pair of folks archly named Gertrude S. and Virgil T. (Gertrude did not look like Miss Stein, nor Virgil like Mr. Thomson). Another, born of her delight with G.I.s, was called Jo the Loiterer. Hapless Andrew Johnson turned up, groaning throughout, "It's cold weather . . . wherever I am." And John Adams sniffed, "Do not pity me; I am an Adams and not pitiable...
...practiced walking like Parisian coquettes. (She was 14.) She was unawed by the $865,000 palace her father built at 2020 Massachusetts Avenue in Washington. She swiped creme de menthe from his liquor closet, squandered her allowance on ermine tails, and ruined the nerves of a series of hapless governesses...
Butterfly's Belch. At every step down the Alley, Fred has to fight the network censors. About these hapless blue-pencilers play the full, fanged lightnings of his wit. "The Molehill Men," he calls them. "A radio censor is a man who comes into his office every morning and finds a molehill on his desk. His job is to build that molehill into a mountain before he goes home." It still gets his sinus in an uproar to recall that during the war he was forbidden to refer slightingly to the Ubangi -because, the censors explained, the Ubangi might...
...sometimes take her duties too seriously. On one dreadful occasion, when she was invited to review the graduating class at a famous officers' training school, Elizabeth had promptly pointed out an unshined buckle on one cadet. An embarrassed hush hung heavy as lead as the hapless offender was called up and rebuked...