Word: nut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...POOR NUT-A college youth who had more brains than social brilliance, but made up for the latter with a fleet pair of legs...
...Rosenbaum, Cornell and Yale graduate, a mathematician who even cranked his automobile with the precision of a man bisecting a hypotenuse. There was tall, cadaverous Hyman ("Hymie") Rosenbaum, Pennsylvania graduate, another mathematician, a genius so absent-minded that the adolescent oafs he taught often mistook him for a "nut" at first. There was Harris Rosenbaum, Yale physicist, terse, timesaving, efficient. Later there was Joseph Rosenbaum II, Cornell botanist...
Scattered in heaps within the skeleton's ribs, arranged in lines beneath the thorax and shoulders as though dropped from decayed strings, lay quarts and quarts of finest pierced pearls, from pinhead size to hickory-nut. There were necklaces of grizzly bears' teeth, the largest ever found, strung with buttons of copper and silver. There were tortoise shell fragments and a swan cut in tortoise shell and effigy pipes-one, in the image of a standing wolf, beautifully cut; another, a foot in length and highly polished, showing a bear. There were cloths, folded beneath the grisly...
...POOR NUT-An undergraduate tale of Phi Beta Kappa keys, track meets and coeds. Impossible but pretty funny...
...POOR NUT-You may not like undergraduate comedy but you can not deny that a lot of this is funny and that the relay race is definitely exciting...