Word: marooned
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...When Master Cooper recently switched from child parts to juveniles, he sternly put away childish things. Among them: a red-upholstered super-flivver with nine horns, seven headlights, a 22-push-button dashboard. Cinemactor Cooper now travels in a sedate maroon coupe...
...Democratic National Committee, wife of the Assistant Secretary of State, spoke for San Francisco, gesticulated so excitedly when she cried, "I ask you to remember that it was in San Francisco the name of Franklin Roosevelt was first put on the national ballot!", that the feathers on her maroon hat quivered...
...Daily Maroon, undergraduate newspaper at the University of Chicago, announced recently that about 500 "loyal graduates" were planning on a "secret meeting to decide on a way" to lift the football team out of the doldrums...
...paper stated that further details of the meeting would be revealed later. The hapless Maroon eleven entertains the Ohio State Buckeyes is a homecoming game tomorrow at Stage Field. The Daily Maroon attacked the school's football policy in an editorial and suggested that the alumni be encouraged to buy up a good football team...
Also Rons. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago looked last week like the Little Five of the Big Ten. Feeblest is Chicago. Once - in the star-spangled days of Amos Alonzo Stagg - the Maroons shared honors with Michigan as the top team in the Midwest. But in the last decade, under the regime of President Robert M. Hutchins, football has been de-emphasized, its teams play like scrubs (154 points have been scored against them in four games this season) and its alumni bow their heads on Saturday nights. "We are a big joke in the eyes of the American...