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...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, likes to quote from a parody of the series called Rollo Visits Cambridge in which Rollo asks Uncle George, "what is a Dean?" and his sage relation answers: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman scated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then...
...Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik, a connoisseur of invective, promptly adopted snollygoster (mispronouncing it as snollygaster). It is, said Malik sententiously, "a difficult-to-trans-late English term" applicable to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, both of the U.S. presidential nominees-and Harry Truman. A familiar Russian phrase may be expanded to "bandits, warmongers, profiteers and snollygosters...
...middle of the last century, the Reverend Mr. Jacob Abbott wrote a series of guide books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, likes to quote from a parody of the series called Rollo Visits Cambridge in which Rollo asks Uncle George, "what is a Dean?" and his sage relation answers: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman scated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then...
...Russia's Jacob Malik, not to be confused with Lebanon's good Charles Malik...
...Chicagoans call Jacob M. Arvey both Jake and Jack. Arvey likes Jack...