Word: mascot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John received his biggest publicity splash in 1933, the day after Harvard upset Yale by a 19 to 6 margin. Two days before the game, some gentlemen from the Lampoon abducted the Eli mascot, Handsome Dan II, from his New Haven kennel. The Sunday following the game, newspapers all over the nation ran frontpage photos of Dan licking John's feet--or, at any rate, his pedestal. The pictures did not reveal the raw hamburger that was smeared at the base of the statute...
Different as the two conventions were, they had one striking feature in common: intense conservatism. The Democrats' eyes were turned back to 1932. A more popular character even than F.D.R. in Democratic Convention oratory was the sheriff foreclosing the old mortgage. The party mascot no longer seemed to be the donkey, but the 2?-a-lb. hog. The almost unanimous party line was contained in the phrase "20 years ago." The Democrats' hope is to stimulate the fear that the Republicans would (in the words of the official campaign song) "take it away." At times it seemed...
Leverett's real achievement though lies in its ability to promote successful self-Initiated activities. The Hutch is the one House with a band--complete with Bunny mascot--to play at football games. There is also a thriving Glee Club, an informal dance band, and an operetta-producing Music Society...
...Janeiro and even Union City, N.J. Some days brought more than 1,000 cards. Some people sent money, chocolates; one offered him a job when he grows up; another offered a 15-day round trip to Salzburg. A battalion of the French Foreign Legion adopted him as mascot...
...engineered by some calculating conspiratorial group. It is absurd to maintain that a copper bird could have arranged a series of audiences with notables, or eluded pursuers unaided, Ever since what now appears to have been a wilful theft, his captors have consistently made a spectacle of the revered mascot--to what purpose, save to embarrass and distress its owners, it is hard to imagine...