Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undaunted at the absence of his old school tie, lost by a rival spot removery, the Plympton Street valet master appeared to have stepped from an authoritative, if slightly dog eared, page of Esquire. "Never fear," said Ben, "We will emerge from the New Haven vendetta by taking Yale to the Valeterias...
...Hollywood's Brown Derby the Chandler mission was wined, dined and propagandized by glib Proprietor Bob Cobb, head man of the Hollywood Stars and an eloquent antidraft orator. Before heading up the Coast, Happy Chandler did some talking of his own. "You haven't had major-league baseball out here," he drawled in parting. "Don't be impatient if it takes a few more years...
...came about that three couples, each made up of a burly ex-partisan (representing the town council) and a prim, Catholic spinster (representing the church) made the rounds. Barbi muttered darkly: "Why, those partisans haven't any sense. They will let those monstrous females do all the talking and convince the poor that it's the priest and not the municipality giving them the money." Meanwhile, Father Bernardoni knelt before the Virgin Mary with a group of demure, dark-eyed members of the Catholic Girls' Association, and prayed loudly: "Helper of Virgins, please help Miss Bianca, Miss...
...westerly breeze as the boats, hung with bunting, sailed out between the piers. On the leading boat stood the statue of the Virgin, one foot holding down the head of a sea serpent, above the inscription: "Tu es Virgo Maria, portus sahitis, marls stella" (Thou art the Virgin Mary, haven of safety, star of the sea). Catholic fishermen sailed their craft daringly, crashing the gunwales under the foam to prove to the leftist onlookers that with the Madonna in the leading boat nothing could happen to them...
...under these comic collegiate clothes the hearts of even the careerists and the drunkards beat with romance, and could be stirred to a passion of loyalty at a hint that our college . . . was not the best in the world." His chapters on New Haven in the early 1900s explore the functions of the college, where, by his estimate, little education was given or gained, and the plight of the faculty which "never, so far as we know, got drunk, swore, fornicated, swindled, never did anything except lie, play politics and be mean...