Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club member who belongs to some socially prominent Boston, New York, or possibly Chicago family, and who continues to be damnably social for four years. And there is the high-school graduate who majors in Latin and spends most of his time in a quiet nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society of the last century that "sneezed whenever England took cold," although nowadays it is difficult to distinguish between the imitation and the real. The studious element speaks Americanese, is not ashamed of its local accent, and goes serious...
...kitchen in Kambridge. The members of the Club are assembled as a high court of inquisition. Sir Larry Hot-Theyrallhot presides, with a huge frankfurter for a gavel. The other members are sitting as a jury impaneled in a saucepan. Mr. Paymore stands before the bar of judgment...
That the feeling against the University Business School is a serious consideration with some people in Cambridge was evidenced yesterday when a huge red flag with a large dollar mark inscribed on it was found floating from the top of the new Counting House under construction in the southwest corner of the Yard, opposite the Subway Rotunda...
...more active competitions on the pig fields, they take refuge in their books, often memorizing entire volumes for the sake of the Prophezzors' praise. If that praise rings loud enough, they are shown more special honor. A special committee of Prophezzors awards to the men chosen a huge brass slab called for some strange reason, a "key." This device is worn in a very showy position just over their stomachs and bears the legend: "Reading maketh a full man. Behold my surfeit...
...Poor Nut. If you are opposed on principle to plays in which the actors parade as undergraduates with huge capital letters on their chests, you may dislike this one, by J. C. and Elliott Nugent. It has a track meet on the stage and a love scene at a fraternity dance. Under such severe handicaps, it manages to be a genial and, at times, an uncommonly amusing comedy...