Word: jestering
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...eight years ago at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. The same girl stood in the wings, calmly waiting her cue. But the cue last week, as it did eight years ago, meant more than just running on stage and singing a duet with the hunchbacked jester...
...high point since 1922. The incease in the Public Debt was caused by the deficit plus $1,258,000,000 advanced by the Treasury to Reconstruction Finance Corp. When Franklin Roosevelt promised in the campaign to cut costs 25% Republicans hooted him as a jester. Last week there was not a single Federal employe who did not realize that the President was and is in deadly earnest...
After hours of fruitless negotiation, which saw the injection of the first note of commercialism into a CRIMSON-Lampoon feud of fifty years standing, J. M. Boyd '35, kidnaped CRIMSON editor, was recovered last night at a Beacon Street hideout. Retreating behind barred doors of the Jester's building, the editors of the Lampoon made no attempt to prevent Boyd's rescue by representatives of the CRIMSON...
That students of the Harvard University be voted into the officers of King, President, Marshal, Speaker, Jester, and the following officers. The officer Britannia must be a coed, and her knights are as follows: Sir Amadorr, Sir Homodorr, Sir Fedelidorr, Sir Paleodorr, Sir Florodorr, Sir Animadorr, and Sir Lexidorr. The officers Columbia must also be a coed, and her knights are as follows: Officer Diodorr, Officer Geodorr, Officer Astrodorr, Officer Philosodorr, Officer Heliodorr, Officer Logosodorr, and Officer Phrenodorr. The Lady Legend Keeper and seven Lady Officers who are readers in the Temple ought also to be coeds. That "The Temple...
...letters if such precious manifestations of the undergraduate comic spirit are to vanish. In "college humor" there is a subtle, ethereal quality that differentiates it from all other brands. What, for example, could be sweeter, gentler, more Lamblike than the intimation of The Brown Jug, Brown University's jester, that the Holy Cross footballers dug their teeth into the corpuses of the Brunonian eleven? Evidently college education softens the manners and clothes academic drollery with incomparable grace. The New York Times...