Word: oom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earth. Bang! rat-a-tat! whack! bang! "My" friend crawls under sheet. Showers of sparks on the ground, then Crash!?a dark brown cloud over the front line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication, an occasional stolen feast. In 1918 comes disintegration, lack of coordination between common soldier and superior, retreat, final defeat...
Separated. Mrs. Georgene Daw Whittlesey; from Percival Wilcox Whittlesey, Omnipotent Oom of a love cult in Nyack...
Yolpone-MIDDLE AGE BROKER, ALLEGED SICK, DISAPPEARS AT OOM CULT RUMOR...
...started a "Woof! Woof!" contest-$1 each for "just little nifties" about the Brownings. Specimen: "Woof! Woof! Daddy Browning, real estate operator whose heart is rent." Graphic headlines: "PEACHES'S SHAME STORY IN FULL," "RAH, DADDY! HAIL, PEACHES!" There were semi-nude pictures of one Marion Dockrell, "female Oom," cult leader admired by Mr. Browning. Inane attention was paid to Mr. Browning's rubber eggs, baby dolls, clay puppies, infantile endearments, trick spoons. New screamer: "DADDY TO BECOME A MONK"-and a picture of the lecher in his office, the walls of which were entirely covered with pictures...
...Harvard the Student Council has learned that there is room in the undergraduate body for both "college" or "quad" and the clubs that the two are complementary and not antagonistic. As Oom Paul Kruzer used to say, one hand washes the other. In a concentrated community of 250 to 300 sophomores, juniors, and seniors each member should copie into intimate contacts with all: if he fails to do so, the fault is presumably his own. At Oxford there are casual but inevitably daily meetings over tea in the common--room and at dinner in Hallson all sorts of college athletic...