Word: out-heroded
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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There will be no cries of outrage on the part of undergraduates in the ears of Mr. Roberts not attempts to out-Herod Herod on the part of the men whose "semi-idiotic obtuseness" he lampoons. The "extra-thick coats of indifference", which he says are a "lot of hooey", will at least protect his victims from the shower of garbage loosed by his glorification of the exception in place of the rule. The only men who will even feel embarrassed are those whom he pictures at luncheon in a prominent undergraduate club--he suggests the "Soup Club"--under such...
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