Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal threnody of the waltz, a fellow kind of felt he was of some importance. . . . The tunes tangled in one's dreams for days; and the pressure of a warm hand-and even if it was a little sweaty and sticky it was young and ardent -might easily linger through life...
...continues to keep his door open to the boulevardiers of Massachusetts Avenue. Freshmen know his name almost as soon as Sever and Hollis. His smile of welcome at the Union gate is as punctual as President Conant's official address. Unlike such romantic heroes as Copeland and Kittredge who linger just beyond the real life of undergraduates, Max Keezer is an indispensible link with the present. Even if your grandfather remembered him, you cannot think of Keezer as anything but agile and hardly more than middle-aged. But he has known them all from President Eliot to Teddy Roosevelt...