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Word: owl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shops (J. August and Briggs & Briggs) along Mass. Avenue. In the rather vague hierarchy of social desirability, the next group includes (alphabetically arranged) the Delphic, better known as "the Gas" (on Linden St. opposite the University Squash Courts), the Fly (on Holyoke Place in front of Lowell House), the Owl (Holyoke St. diagonally across from the I.A.B.), and the Spee (corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Sts.). Then come the Phoenix S. K. and the Iroquois (in adjoining buildings on Mt. Auburn St. facing Elsie's), the Fox (corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston), and the D.U. (above J. Press...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, COPYRIGHT, NOVEMBER 22, 1958, BY THE HARVARD CRIMSON | Title: The Final Clubs: Little Bastions of Society In a University World that No Longer Cares | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...week, and even occasional breakfasts in a few of the establishments. The charges for these meals are kept low--under a dollar--so that members can come as frequently as possible. A few of the Clubs offer special fringe benefits: the Gas boasts a private squash court, and the Owl floods its garden in winter to convert it into a seasonal hockey rink...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, COPYRIGHT, NOVEMBER 22, 1958, BY THE HARVARD CRIMSON | Title: The Final Clubs: Little Bastions of Society In a University World that No Longer Cares | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...round, owl-eyed oddball in hornrimmed glasses had never seen fit to set foot in Omaha before, but one day last week the town turned out as if he were a returning hero. The Junior Chamber of Commerce met him at Union Station; he was taken on a tour of Boys Town, paid his respects to the archbishop, visited a convent for errant girls, and was named Chief Charging Buffalo by the Omaha Indians. The excuse for all the excitement seemed as zany as the celebration itself: Stan Freberg, visiting comic-turned-adman from California, had come to town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Art for Money's Sake | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...foreigners and the industrious businessmen of northern Italy, Rome's bureaucrats have for years meandered into their offices about 10 o'clock, knocked off for lunch and a snooze about 2, returned from lunch about 6 and remained until 10 to do business with any night owl who wandered by. The new hours: 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fanfani himself likes to summon his own aides into conference before 8 a.m., and he hangs on into the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Shortening the Siestas | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...crushing tragedy in the face of which his pragmatism is meaningless and his nihilism a cheerless thing. The agent of his undoing is the narrator of the book, Jacob Horner, one of the most fascinatingly dreadful characters to appear in a long time. He is self-described as "owl. peacock, chameleon, donkey and popinjay, fugitive from a medieval bestiary." In more modern terms, he is also a manic-depressive, and a fugitive from a psychotherapeutic institution called the Remobilization Farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Study in Nihilism | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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