Word: hepness
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...deprived of drape shapes, reet pleats and stuff cuffs by WPB edict have a new decorative theme with which to express themselves in San Francisco and Oakland. War-working jalopy jerks find love stripes, painted diagonally across the doors of their hot irons,† the quickest way to let hep twists know what kind of wolf is giving them a gander. One stripe indicates single male on the scout. Two stripes-going steady but still stuff seeking. Three stripes-practically engaged, looking for no pickups. Four stripes-in the saddle, all soaped up, or married...
...Hep Cat. In Newark, a butcher closed his shop, went home without feeding his cat. A telephone operator reported to police that the butcher's telephone was being jiggled. Police found the cat on the telephone, notified the butcher, who returned...
...sporting press has found a "little Joe Louis," lightweight Ray Robinson. Young Robinson, a Harlem "hep-cat" just a half-inch under six feet tall, is neither little nor does he bear much resemblance to the world's heavyweight champion. But the way the skinny 139-pounder brushed off onetime Welterweight Champion Fritzie Zivic-steel-tough, ring-wise and seven pounds heavier-in a ten-round match at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week showed that another Negro was punching his way into ring history. In 115 fights, amateur and professional, Robinson has never been licked...
...good team. They won't believe us when we tell them that it is not yet a good team, although it might possibly develop to such a stature. It will have to get good to keep company with the rest of the Ivy League, which is supposedly really "hep" this year...
...comparison of records would indicate a superior Harvard squad, undefeated in four informal meetings, over Dartmouth this season and outpointing Yale by six markers in last Saturday's Hep encounter. The Blue took the indoor contest between the two teams during the winter 56 to 35, but Dartmouth also beat the Crimson Indoors...