Word: keezerism
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...author notes that the temporary seats in the Stadium, always filled in the past, have been dismantled and the cheerleaders no longer sport Crimson varsity athletic letters on their sweaters. The Gold Coast Porcellian Club and Max Keezer's used clothing store (now managed by Joe) were all part of the Cambridge scene in the twenties, McCarthy relates...
...dress makes him distinctive, too. The story goes that Curley came over to Cambridge at the outset of his career and bought a second-hand rich boy's suit from Max Keezer that he were for years as alderman and mayor. Now, you see him mostly in a cutaway; supposedly he once showed up in a tuxedo to shovel the first clod of earth for a foundation, complaining that he hadn't hat time to change his clothes after a formal luncheon...
Both "Joe" and Max Keezer stand ready to absorb miscellanies so that the back-against-the-wall undergraduate may find enough money to take care of all those relatives. And the careful pick and choose, once-in-a-lifetime shopper might find a choice bric or brac if he investigates carefully...
...sing "Harvardiana," or even "Fair Harvard," and he mumbles about "a physics lab" and his eyes dart around, for all the world like a cornered ferret's, as he tries to sneak past you. Does anyone know who John the Orangeman was, or Max Keezer? My God, there are people here now who think that Winthrop House is "one of them there Harvard Clubs...
Snowball claims that he is "of the old school." Colonel Apted and Max Keezer were his contemporaries. The only ones left are Jimmy O'Brien (Janitor of Claverly) and Nappy, the taxi driver. But he still overflows with biblical quotations, preaches powerful sermons against race discrimination while picking up clothes to press, mixes his famous "Green Dragon" punch, manages the "Boston Tigers," and is private caretaker, weather-discusser, and day-starter for Professor Copeland. His main ambition is to be a Cabinet Minister; his main contention that "you can always wake a Harvard man with music...