Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Europeans and a good many Americans consider Harvard the No. i U.S. university. Just as many, and perhaps more, Americans think of it as an overripe berry patch full of arrogant and precious snobs. For every man who admires Harvard for producing an Emerson, a Holmes, a Henry Adams, a Henry James, a Franklin Roosevelt, there is at least another who agrees with the old gag: "You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much...
...mounted on a pipe . . . and pretty little thrips who sing mischievously about adultery . . . while Ollie Twitch and his reefer boys are tearing the atmosphere to bleeding tatters from the platform and some agile mugger with greased hair is twining a boneless female around his neck and exhibiting an impersonal patch of leg meat, hers...
...painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
...have long wondered why the average person thinks that Kate Douglas Wiggin wrote Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Now he legend has got into print (TIME, July...
...true that Wiggin suggests Wiggs, but this coincidence does not constitute authorship. Wiggs, in turn, is very like Riggs, which was Kate Douglas Wiggin's name in later ife. But she certainly did not live in ... Alice Hegan Rice's Cabbage Patch...