Word: loree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With its customary quietude and beer-sparked dignity, the SERVICE NEWS' summer competition was launched last Wednesday night as lore-loving Freshmen answered the challenge of 14 Plympton Street's wind-blown Crimson banner. New blood now flows in the veins of the University's war-serving bi-weekly...
...flyers of Group Twelve, now to be dispersed to spread their lore among new airmen, carried away many another memory last week as they said goodbye and went to their new stations. But none was sharper than the great carrier strike on Rabaul...
Killing Susy. Editor Webster's picture of "Uncle Sam" begins with such early lore as the fun Twain had in letters to his mother. She wrote in a maternal hurry and let her mistakes go uncorrected. Thus when she meant to write, "Kiss Susy [Twain's daughter] for me," it came out "Kill Susy for me." To which Twain replied: "I said to Livy [his wife], 'It is a hard thing to ask of loving parents, but Ma is getting old and her slightest whim must be our law'; so I called in Downey, and Livy...
Klein hated fanfare. After guiding Hollywood's Trader Horn expedition, he swore he would never again take another job like it. He never wrote a book or magazine article. His phenomenal lore leaked out in dribbles around the firesides of jungle camps...
Copper-Bellied Corpse. The American folk who emerge from this lore are robust, daredevil, imaginative, fond of broad humor, tender love, great deeds, crude, rude, sometimes full of noble sentiment, sometimes intolerant. They glorify outlaws (Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid), poke fun at woodsmen (Mike Fink, Davy Crockett), sanctify Johnny Appleseed. The U.S. gift for tall talk is flaunted in Sven, the Hundred Proof Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted...