Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ginger Rap. In Pine Grove, Calif., a ward of the Youth Authority escaped from detention camp, left a note: "I got tired of this place and if you guys want me, you guys got to look for me at home, but please save my cookies until I come back...
...spite of numerous political reverses, the hey-day of Curley's Harvard career came in the 'thirties. The depression gave numerous opportunities to sport with President A. Lawrence Lowell. Distressed to note that the 1931 Harvard-Army football game was to be played at the Cadets' small field, Mayor Curley pressed President Lowell to move the game to Yankee Stadium, with the extra proceeds going to the City of Boston for its unemployed. When Lowell protested that a Harvard team could play only on a college field, Curley arranged for Boston College to play Holy Cross at Harvard Stadium...
...freshmen require a slightly different approach. Prominently displayed on their bulletin board are evidences of Eli pomposity and self-esteem from the Yale Daily News, such as, "Bullpup Gridders: Small But Tough," and "Bullpups Trample Dartmouth, 16-6, Posting Third Consecutive Victory." A short note taped on one of the lockers reads, "Yale has ordered tubs in which to ice refreshments to celebrate their victory...
Sounds on the Right. First sign of Joan's unusual qualities, they note, came at 12½, when she began to have "mixed sensations of sight and sound, coming from her right, together with touch and smell . . . The sensations were generally accompanied by a bright light." Modern neurology attributes such symptoms to disease in the brain's temporal lobe, close to the sphenoid bone, where it may affect the nerves for several senses...
...fusion party of disgruntled old men, trade unionists dimly aware that their class has been milked of all intelligence capable of leadership, and upper-class women amorously alive to the proletarian athletes' big muscles. Blindly the author discounts the unrest; his publisher ends the book with a note that the writer was unable to correct proofs because he was killed in the uprising...