Word: mascot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winnsboro, S.C., he had been the 75-lb. runt of an amateur boxing team. Sometimes, on trips with the team, he had to serve as mascot and second when there was no boxer on the other squad small enough, i.e., under 100 Ibs., for him to fight. After he moved to Seattle with his mother in 1945, Glisson filled in one night for a dishwasher in a short-order restaurant. He made so much noise that a customer, Horse Trainer Ralph King from nearby Longacres, asked the waitress who he was. Said the waitress: "He ought to be a jockey...
...became a mascot for the 43rd, a New England National Guard division, and he also scrubbed pots & pans in the mess tents. One night, seeing some Japs lying in ambush, José raced back to a G.I., saluted stiffly and cried: "Sir, Japanese sniper-this way, please!" Often he slipped at night to his parents' home, returned with roasted chickens, fresh eggs and bucayo (bits of coconut fried in brown sugar) for his G.I. pals...
Briggs Hall breakfasts on strawberries and cream and nothing else one morning in June and Freshmen get a chance to fight back at the annual "take-off" skit in the fall. George, a stuffed penguin, attends all Bertram Hall jamborees as mascot and chaperone, and the table at Eliot Hall's annual Christmas punch is graced by a home-frozen bowl chopped from a chunk...
...earlier occasion, Jones recalled, masquerading Class members marched as the Seven Dwarfs with the aid of a young lady 'mascot" as Snow White. The great advantage of this, he explained, came with the masks worn by the dwarfs, which "allowed us to get drunk without our wives being able to tell...
Sadnees prevails at the nursery, but when Harvey's son is strong enough to take over duties as mascot, his sire's personality will be replaced...