Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crimson--The Dean! Why we consider it an off day if we don't get a letter from the Dean. You fellows are sure simple down there. No letters from the Dean...
...near being filled," he said. "Our squad is never cut at any time during the year, and I can't count the number of men who never ran nor entered any field event, who in the first year earned a place on the team and eventually received their letter...
Immediately he dashed off a letter, addressed to Mr. Benjamin Franklin, in care of the Saturday Evening Post. In it he demanded a confession of the dark designs behind this hoax which flaunted itself before the unsuspecting eyes of ten million American innocents...
...Tropic of Cancer he deals primarily with matters which, while not exactly left out of modern books, are usually slurred over, and in his pages four-letter words are as common as the things they stand for. Narrator of the story is a penniless, sex-obsessed writer living in Paris, who encounters an extraordinary crew of neurotics, prostitutes, perverts, poets and painters, with many of whom he has sexual relations, meanwhile borrowing money, cadging drinks and exploding into hysterical laughter at the misfortunes of his friends. Miller's prose, with its queer combination of unrestrained rhetoric and dry Yankee...
Fired from Manhattan's Hotel Astor for breaking dishes and from the Hotel McAlpin for daydreaming over an actress to whom he wrote "I think I love you," Bemelmans used his uncle's last letter of introduction to get a busboy job in the Hotel "Splendide...