Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this glorification of vulgarity) a thing which is funny in itself. Miss Walker must rely on her wide variety of comical walks, certain headgear which always manages to get in her eyes, outlandish get-ups which frequently hide all but that jutting chin, and a face that could never be forgiven, were it anything but funny. Above all this, Miss Walker has the common touch. (To which she would surely reply: "If its common...
Take the case of the false teeth. A while back, somebody lost a set of dentures in the College area, and never turned up at the right place to claim them. He could have gone to a Lehman Hall office, or the Union, or all the Houses, or any of a considerable number of other places. But if he didn't hit the right one in the first few attempts--and he evidently didn't--it would have been more sensible for him to buy some new choppers...
...passionate objection to the continuance of World War I, and Lawrence hoped that they might not only get together in preaching pacifism but also in concocting a new philosophy of life. The 23 Lawrence letters in this collection (he did not preserve Russell's answers) have never been published before. Russell turned them over to a student who was doing research on Lawrence...
Bertie still was. In 1918, he was clapped into jail for his pacifist views, spent his 6 months' sentence writing his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. Lawrence got out of England in 1919, but he never really forgave Bertie. "Have you ever seen him in a bathing dress?" he sneeringly asked a friend...
Elevator operators have their ups and downs, but Leo Shean, night watchman at Lamont for the last year and a half, has had a never-ending struggle to protect the library from the curious. It's been a real challenge...