Word: muckers
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...Miss Ehrlich, proved a very interesting flashlight of the lowly in their more exalted moods. The undergraduate of a few years ago clung to evening clothes when he dipped into make-believe. The mucker by the subway's brim, a stupid mucker was to him. Then Mr. Sheldon proved that the mucker might be drama, and after him--the deluge. The action of "Kid" passes in a subway station represented by an admirable back drop new in the club's repertoire. The lines of this human little piece are not always successful, the lingo of the streets is dragged...
...Little '04, and the marginal designs, by F. G. Hall '03, are excellent; the accompanying verses, by H. M. Eliot, Jr., '02, are bright and pointed. The caricatures in the book are of Dean Shaler, "Herbie," Professors Wendell, Moore and Norton, Dean Briggs, Mr. Copeland, Mr. LaRose, McMaster, "The Mucker," Mr. Cram, Sanborn, "The Poco," Mr. Nolan. The price...
...Stone and Co., Chicago) should find a place in every library as the funniest book of the year. Like "Chimmie Fadden," it was originally published in newspaper form and its wonderful popularity induced the publishers to bring it out in book form. It is the story of a typical "mucker" office boy, Artie, whose slangy conversations are extremely funny. He styles all college men as "rah rah boys" and describes them from an office boy's point of view. Mr. McCutcheon's illlustrations, with the decorative buckram cover make it a handsome volume...
...such manners as there birds assumed - such calm repose, and dignity in the presence of strangers, such indifference to the menace alike of small dog and "mucker," such unbird like fearlessness had never before been seen. They sat on the snow under the trees just back of University Hall, eating the seeds that had fallen, permitted the curiours to approach within a yard or two without manifesting the slig test timidity. "What makes them so tame?" everyone asked...
...change of its being good but the effect is entirely thrown away out of the hasty and unartistic ending. The same fault is to be found with, 'A Disgrace to His Profession'; the last sentence is too tame but the rest of the story is good. The mucker-talk is well handled and there are several felicitous combinations such as the 'hallelujah sisters...