Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young lady, attempting to cross Massachusetts Avenue in front of Lehman Hall, was knocked down by a car making the turn toward the Law School. Not that such an event is unusual; to most residents in the neighborhood of the Square, it is probably surprising that it does not happen more often...
Theodore Greene (professor of philosophy at Yale): "May I make a comment? . . . Miro expresses a kind of infantilism . . . I happen to like children. But I think there is a limit to how much time I want to spend in conversation with a one-year...
This week the most unthinkable event in the comic-strip world happened-apparently. After years of chasing Li'l Abner, busty, bee-yoo-tiful Daisy Mae had caught him on a give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like...
Screamed Li'l Abner: "Joe!! Yo' has failed me!! Ah was shore somethin' would happen-somethin' awful!!" Croaked Btfsplk: "It (sob!) DID!!" Had the unthinkable really happened? Sadistic Cartoonist Al Capp left his readers to bite their nails over that for another week...
...McCabe's Jayvee eleven got a slight foretaste Friday afternoon of what was to happen 24 hours later to their Varsity comrades...