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...twos everybody. Line up. Partners. First four girls go on over to Barnard--they have places for you in the laundry room and smokers. Next four to Moors. Let's see--that about finishes the room space in the dormitories. All you girls have places, don't you? Hmmm. Well, suppose you eleven stick together for the time being. We'll find you something nice in the Health Center. I always thought there was something a little sick about you off-campus dames anyway! Hey, that's good...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: A Solution to the Off-Campus Problem | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...morning, so a Bryant legend goes, Bear picked up his phone and dialed Auburn University's athletic office, trying to clear up a ticket hassle. "Let me speak to Coach Ralph Jordan, please," he asked. Jordan was not yet in. Neither was Ticket Manager Bill Beckwith. "Hmmm," said Bear Bryant, "you people don't take your football very seriously over there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Bear at 'Bama | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...Hmmm," say de Lawd, and all de Seraphim put down deah cigars to listen. Dis made de angels happy cause dey was gettin mighty tired flapping deah wings and was hoping de Lawd would install automatic air-conditioning. "Hmmm," say de Lawd again, "De old Piety Test has got to go. Wid de permission of de Boa'd, ah'd like to pass a miracle. Dis is gwine be a restricting miracle on de Piety Test Rules, Miracle I, Section fifty-nine: 'Salvation by piety, dat is our aim.' Let de clause now read: 'Salvation by piety and extra-curricular...

Author: By Calvin Trapp, | Title: Crisis in High Places | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

...Against McCarthy and independent. . . Hmmm.. . . . How do I know you're not red-affiliated...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Charge of the Right Brigade | 11/27/1954 | See Source »

...your Feb. 11 account of the "Three Sharpies" who pilfered the apartment of Fashion Designer Mollie Parnis, you state that the young thieves "were ... of the variety who are called 'sharpies' and who wear peg-top pants, sharply pointed shoes, Windsor-knot ties . . ." Hmmm, guess you didn't take a close enough look at the Younger Generation you wrote about a while back, as, if you had, you would have observed that the Windsor knot is very popular among the 18-to-28 age group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1952 | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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