Word: jawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before Weld's term expires he expects to see an army of over 150 busy digging into the heavy agenda. These will not be "the usual kind who 'go out' for things but will be drawn from those who have top ability." It is selling the Council to apathetic Jawn and then "making him feel the necessity of some particular isolated problem" that Weld has set for his task...
...startd at 7:30 o'clock in front of Old Jawn. Led by the band, 24 torch-carriers, a Crimson bedecked Great Dane, and a vintage 1920 Buick, owned by Bill Currier '50, of Wigglesworth Hall, the procession wound through the Yard, across Massachusetts Avenue and down Holyoke Street. At the Bow Street triangle, the first casualty of the night, Dutch-tile fancier Clemens P. Woop '00, was seen limping into his sanctuary...
...business" into the stadium this week. As it was, she brushed the teardrops from her eyes last night and asked herself why nobody wanted her. B.U. had started all her troubles when bandsman Warren Freeman decided his cohorts could do without her and offered her to the Jawn Harvards...
...likes to see home runs, partly (he explains) because the Polo Grounds are closer than Yankee Stadium to his apartment on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Ruth doubts that Mize or anybody else will break his record; but if somebody has to break it, he hopes that big Jawn will be the man. Mize is Mrs. Ruth's second cousin, and the Babe would like to keep the record in the family...
With a sigh, Vag circled University Hall and beamed a troubled glance on Old Jawn. Well that was all right--he was still unbowed in his solitary splendor. At least we have our tradition, Vag thought, but now, Fair Harvard, when thy sons to thy jubilee throng, the masculine spirit of year will be somewhat diluted. Those mellow occasions when the alumni used to contemplate "the good times we had with Copey" would have a strange air about them now when they realized there were others (he straightened his tie) who shared the same memories. Was that fair? There would...