Word: hubbarded
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...either the graders or me, Dean Holbrook," he shouted incoherently. "One of us has got to go." The dean finally managed to clam Grouser and hear his complaint. "You obviously aren't acquainted with the technical workings of the grading system. Why don't you go to see Professor Hubbard, the head of the Managerial reports?" Grouser didn't feel like being shuttled between offices, but he did want to give this Hubbard a piece of his mind. "Thanks, Dean, and don't be surprised if I join the Navy or the Air Force," he grumbled. Up three flights...
Professor Hubbard was definitely taken back. "What is this 'report-pitching' game?" he asked. "Well, my roommate has seen the graders in Gallatin House almost every noon standing at the bottom of the stairs, and pitching reports. The one farthest up receives a distinction, and the rest are graded accordingly...
...pack at tackle at the present time, with George Hibbard and Steve Mallett right on their heels. Guards were rushed in and out of spring scrimmages so fast that it was hard to keep track of them, but Jim Aldrich, Wally Kamp, Goody Goodale, Sid Smith, and Charley Hubbard seem to be the leaders. Dick Rowe, who did not work out this spring, will be a strong contender...
Thanks to the Nazis, Denmark was bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Several days before the 30th anniversary of his accession to the throne, King Christian X ruled that no celebrations be held in his honor. In the once dairy-rich country there was still some milk- but most of it was skimmed. Eggs, butter and bacon, onetime Danish standbys, were scarce as hens' teeth. Thousands of Danes had been exiled to enforced labor in Germany. Two years of German domination had really brought the New Order to Denmark...
...will be glad to see that Editor Mencken enshrines his file-tongued old friend James Huneker ("He died without owing me a cent"); that he respects the gentle excellence of the late Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinions; that he is not afraid to rescue Elbert Hubbard from the Roycrofters (with, for instance, his definition of God as "The John Doe of philosophy and religion"). He will encounter such sharp or strange anonymities as the Polish proverb "God can shave without soap" or this definition of a suffragette (circa 1906): "One who has ceased to be a lady...