Word: jestered
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...passing of Arthur and these noble nights it now history. Down the stairs and across the filled floor for "a black and white, and coffee" is still possible for the Undergraduate, but no longer feasible; a jester is not to be trusted with the salt. Arthur was in, of, and for the bowels of Lampy, but his Einstein united the venerable magazine, too well. Year by year Plympton street observers have heard the dinner boll ring, and observed the Jester and his crow grow fatter and fatter on Arthur's food, till the bright sparklings of pristine wit grow...
...late that the ruby of the sunset was only a garnet and the emerald of the sea was but green glass. He has suffered from the "weariness the fever, and the fret. Here, where men sit and hear each other groan." He has sought comradeship in vain. The Jester has been in seclusion, incubating puns on the Shanghai situation. George Bernard Shaw has climbed off the apple cart to mount the band-wagon of reform (thereby adding another name to the firm of Wells, Russell, and Mencken, Ltd., Odd-jobbers Specializing in the Repair of Democracy, Sex, The Facts...
...Futcher '32, chairman of the Winthrop House Committee, gave an illustrated talk last night in the Senior Common Room on "Giants, Dwarfs, and the Pituitary Gland." Some of the famous freaks of human development were described, including Jeffery Hudson, a court jester in the time of Charles First, who although only 18 inches tall killed an opponent in a duel and lived to the age of 63; and the Russian giant Machnow, who attained the height of nine feet, three inches. Slides were shown explaining the experimental gigantism produced in rats by the injection of pituitary gland extracts...
...Jester G. B. Shaw proposed last week that Britain wangle the U. S. into "a suspension of from 50 to 100 years." But the "Ford of Britain," Sir Herbert Austin, maker of midget cars, was quite serious when he said, "President Hoover's step will bring the greatest credit to the United States, but a three-year suspension would be more effective...
...England. I wonder just what that duty is? No one wanted me or cared for me in England 17 years ago. I had to go to America for my chance, and I got it there. . . . I am by way of being a student of history. I know that the jester always pays, for the king inevitably kicks him downstairs. The most famous court clowns eventually are beheaded. But what happens to the monarch then? In nearly every case, kicking the jester has presaged the fall of the throne. . . . Patriotism is the greatest insanity the world has ever suffered...