Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Muzzey believes that Paine's name should stand, with Washington's and Lincoln's, on the honor roll of America's heroes. In three books, he prepared the American mind for independence, he encouraged the American army in the winning of independence, and he justified American independence through its beneficent influence upon the world at large...
...begun on the formation of the various class committees. In order to get information for the appointment of the editor-in-chief of the Red Book the officers desire that every one who has had any experience on a school paper or year book should hand in his name and a record of the experience he has had to H. G. Crosby, 18 Little Hall...
There must be something behind it all, else the alumni would not have been able to keep the ball rolling at such a number of revolutions per minute for two months. Even though no one has referred to it by name yet, the moth-eaten specter of Harvard indifference may have begun again to walk abroad and clank its chain. It is not the first time that even a suspicion that the worthy spook is about again has set people by the cars...
...Dewey and Wanna, the twins, and Lotta, Kenny, and Willie, the other children. Mr. Collier freely makes additions to the family whenever he finds it to be to his advantage. In satirizing prominent people or current events he puts a squashed hat on his subject and gives him a name as near the original as possible. The most popular of these are Kidman Grow, for Dr. Cadman, Martin Grow, for Mr. Martin Lomasney, and Homer Grow, for Mr. Homer Loring. Mr. Collier takes great delight in doing this and says it is very easy as we are really all Grows...
...four years Otto had no name and was known in society merely as "the Little Guy." Mr. Collier then offered a prize of $10 for a name and received 1400 suggestions...