Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dean H. E. Stone of the University of West Virginia has written in the Educational Review that knowledge has increased to the point where too much is expected of the present generation of college men and women. He says: "The flunker, the athlete, the pampered only son, the tea hound, the college politician . . . existed when we were young and those who went to college were so few as to be 'select'." He argues that the colleges were objects of criticism in his day, but they nevertheless turned out some pretty good results...
...their secret places. But if this practice continues, and the faith of restaurant owners is repeatedly betrayed by masquerading detectives, the college man will be driven to a last and desperate resort. His final remedy will be, of course, to return the compliment and disguise himself as a "rum hound"" which as Donald Ogden Stewart says, is easily done by tucking the ends of one's necktie under the points of one's collar...
...city of New Haven there lives a bull-dog so famous hat he is known throughout the country. This same bull-dog is blue all over and at certain seasons of the year it is reported that, like the Hound of the Baskerviles, his eyes shoot fire. When these seasonal madnesses seize him, he becomes so dangerous that nobody dares front him except a certain tiger and a man named John Harvard...
...latter's offered gift of a wire-haired fox terrier, Peter Pan. Laddie Boy was given away by Mrs. Harding to one of the White House guards. Peter Pan, three months old, one of six children, son of Prides Hill Sicyon and Lady Babbie, bids fair to become Presidential hound...
...heat prostration in the audience. Mr. Harding declared that he felt himself to be a real sourdough, because he was the first President to visit Alaska. A part of the ceremonies was the presentation of a moose-hide collar, ornamented with gold nuggets and ivory, for Laddie Boy, Presidential hound...