Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...care what you were before you got here--you're Dartmouth freshmen, kin to the worm, now, and will be treated as such. Consider what's coming an honor, an undergraduate equivalent of matriculation, a sign of acceptance into the Dartmouth community. If you still think it's kid stuff, far, far beneath your mature dignity, remember this: Dartmouth was run that way before you were thought of, will be run that way after you're dead. If you don't like it, what the hell are you here...
Moriarty fought the war in the South Pacific. He went to Germany last spring. Said he: "I saw kids in the streets picking up cigaret butts and begging. They all looked hungry, backward, scared. You know, they got an awfully dirty deal in this war; never had anything to look forward to. Me, I lost a redheaded kid brother, and I looked at these kids and at our job over here, and, by God, I don't ever want to think he died in vain. So I decided to do something...
...events-or as good as real events-which no one before him has really been able to fathom. Thomas Mann, in his wisdom, makes no such claim for his great and subtle Biblical Joseph and His Brothers. But in King Jesus Robert Graves, bright and solemn as a Quiz Kid, again implies that he has at last discovered the "valid explanation"-this time of the New Testament story...
This week's column is dedicated to antiquity. In line with this it should be mentioned that a number of new and improved records have been cut by the revitalized Kid Ory Band with Omer Simcon and Papa Mutt Carey still effectively holding back father time...
...should see this kid Smith that's back after three years in the Navy...