Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether they like to get wet or not, incoming Freshmen have to swim two lengths of the 75-foot pool. Failure to do this by the Senior year means no A.B. degree. The pool, one of the fastest in the country, is open during the whole school year, with the team, coached by Larry Peterson, operating during the winter...
...grown too large and unwieldy for a practical deliberative and advisory body, has been largely replaced by the Faculty Council. This body of 65 men, representing all departments and elected by the whole Faculty, acts on behalf of the Faculty in consulting with the President on matters of policy. Like the visiting committees, however, the Council is in no sense a legislative body...
...July 19 program. Someone at Young & Rubicam's, the ad agency producing the show, had heard about a printing executive in Philadelphia, name of Klein, whose hobby was hypnotism. Arrangements were made immediately: Hypnotist Howard Klein was going to hypnotize someone right in the studio. It seemed like a swell idea at the time. Mr. Klein, a great hand at house parties, was delighted. He sent little printed cards to a lot of his friends, telling them to be sure to listen in. At Young & Rubicam's request, he bustled up to Manhattan two days before the scheduled...
William Lamb naturally fell easy victim to the wholly different boudoir atmosphere of Devonshire House, whose tyrant was slight, agile, wide-eyed, willful, 17-year-old Caroline Ponsonby. Her lisping voice cooed out words in "the Devonshire House drawl." Said a rival: "Lady Caroline baas like a little sheep." Caroline liked to gallop bareback, to dress in trousers. Sometimes she would scream and tear her clothes, kick the floor with her heels. But she was vivid, fitful, daring and held even outraged relatives spellbound...
...separation, Caroline quickly died. "For years afterwards the mere mention of her name brought tears to his eyes. . . . 'Shall we meet?' he would be heard murmuring to himself, 'Shall we meet in another world?' " To the future Prime Minister, Caroline's death seemed like the end of the world...