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...names Bat. Iroquois, Kex, and Iota mean little to today's Harvard students, but once they were prominent fixtures of social life...
Another club which faded away is the 78 Mt. Auburn St. based Kex, founded in 1924 and not heard from after 1932. The officers of 1930-31 reported solvency and a small membership, adding that "The pessimism as to the inevitable effect of the House plan seems to be quite unjustified for this year at least..." and mentioned the possibility of a merger with a fraternity, Alpha Sigma...
...George Papandreou, said Novas, in the words of Aristophanes, was just another demagogue apt for "rousing the mob and terrorizing those who hold contrary opinions." The chorus of frogs was provided by 145 Deputies of Papandreou's (and Novas') Center Union Party, who, instead of croaking brekeke-kex-koax-koax, hooted "Judas!" and "Traitor!" at Novas and his ministers. At the end of the debate, they voted the Novas government out of existence...
...World in Eleven Years was a best-seller in 1936), turned up in Portland, Ore. last week as that city's first full-time radio newscaster. Now 59, tiny, egg-bald Abbe began a two-a-day stint for the Oregonian's twin stations KGW and KEX. Said he: "All my life editors told me to photograph or write but for God's sake stop talking. Now I can talk...
Anyway, that is the gist of what each Eli says when he gives the Long Cheer, for in Aristo phones' "The Frogs" the frogs yell at the people going to the underworld. "Bre-ke-ke-kex," which translated into American vernacular means "Go to h--, you bums." At the same time, the bre-ke-ke-kex is the three staccato dots and the long dash which stand for "V" for Victory." --From the Yale News...