Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continuing under his accelerated academic program, the 23-year old signal-caller from Worcester could graduate in June. But with enough eligibility time left for another season of football, he has decided to help mix Valpey's black magic for another year...
Metcalf asked the Council to appoint a committee that could help him decide several procedural matters. Lamont has a small auditorium seating 150, the Forum Room, which will be available for certain types of meetings. But Metcalf has not decided what rules should apply to the auditorium so that there will be no excess noise to those working in the Reading Room. Such rules will be worked out by the committee...
...falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald) are more admirable than the pack of voracious relatives who are snarling over scraps of a great estate. Ilka Chase and Monty Woolley are a help in waspish supporting roles...
...Teach You. Several publishers of bloods made fortunes on which they built more respectable empires. Young Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) founded the Daily Mail and bought the Times itself with the help of his bloody pennies. Harmsworth and others like him repeated the still popular yellow-press hypocrisy that the aim of a foul story was not to please, but to educate the public; thus, the reader was expected to find a sort of Sermon on the Mount in a discussion of the murder of prostitutes "by mutilation, dismemberment, garrotting, throat-slitting and clubbing." ("I have a small collection...
...victory parties and dances lasted most of the night. Maybe some of them are still going. Harvard men drowned Yale men in gallons of whiskey and then swam in to help out their unhappy brothers. A guy could retire if he had a nickle for every bottle of liquor that went down the hatch Saturday night