Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teacher has with the successive college generations of young men that he influences--and by whom he is equally influenced. And is it wholly amiss to mention his long vacations? If he is any good he uses them partly for work, to be sure, but he can work or loaf where and when he pleases and--a boon often denied the business man in summer--he can be with his family and actually get well acquainted with his wife and children...
...members of the University of Michigan, men and women, came into convocation. Their President, Dr. Marion Leroy Burton, rose to address them. Said he: "Things have transpired recently that are as raw as anything that has happened in my IS years of administration experience. You students are lazy. You loaf, you gamble,* you spend weekends in big cities, and then you wonder why we don't want you here. We don't want loafers here, and we will get rid of you as fast as we find you out. Student evils in this university must...
With the price of bread running into billions a loaf the German people have had to get used to counting in thousands of billions. This, according to some German physicians, brought on a new nervous disease known as "zero stroke," or "cipher stroke," which may, however, be classed with neuritis as cipheritis...
...make-up that I wear in The Lullaby and collected 28? by begging on the streets outside the Knickerbocker Theatre, Manhattan. As a result of the publicicity which attended this stunt, I received a letter from the West Side Gospel Mission stating that 28? was sufficeint to buy a loaf of bread and a pail of coal. My press agent was quick to announce that I sent the 28? to the mission, plus a check for $25, 'to show she was as well off as most beggars...
Self-made men who have risen from the estate of newspaper boys to the estate of financial magnates appear to derive extraordinary pleasure from setting down a college course as a kind of sinecure for enjoying an extra "loaf" before rolling up the sleeves for real work. The attitude has been put into words in the leading editorial of the last number of the Alumni Bulletin. "Are we not in danger of neglecting to impress upon the world the fact that a college is a place to which young men are sentenced to do four years of hard labor...