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Most students call them "biddies". But ever since the maids discovered that "biddy" means "keeper of pigs", they have despised the term--not because they consider it a reflection upon themselves, but on "their boys", as they call students...
...shallow lake and 112 more islands popped into sight. None was more than 100 ft. in diameter and not until last month did any seem worthy of attention. Then the Resident Works Engineer stumbled on the remains of a Stone Age dugout canoe. Immediately he sent for Joseph Raftery, Keeper of Irish Antiquities at Dublin's National Museum...
...known about the visitors from St. Louis, said by the program to be Harvard's fourth opponent from west of the Mississippi in 79 years. As the scribes watched the varsity gird itself from high atop Critics' Roost, they pooled what information they had, helped along by their keeper, W. Henry Johnston, the sports publicist...
...Frederick Ponsonby was "a courtier to his fingertips." Three British sovereigns -Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V-employed him as private secretary, equerry and Keeper of the Privy Purse, and in the last year of his life (1935) he was rewarded with a peerage. Ponsonby could speak bluntly or subtly to all kinds of men, and he could ride a horse as smartly as he could snub an upstart. But he was no stick; he dreamed of writing film scripts and was "always interested in the possibility of raising King John's treasure from the Wash...
...Seaga, Crimson captain, will play in his usual "wicket-keeper" (pitcher) slot, while assisting bowlers Ongley and Rickards will be Barry Cooke, "Muggy" Mugaseth, and John Fletcher...