Word: pater
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...much more precious than the average broiler? Well, Father Haydn's chick is absolutely enormous and interminably long-and the public loves to get good poundage for its money. It is primarily what is called a think-chick, and its little crop is crammed with quotations from Walter Pater, W. H. Auden, Machiavelli, Engels, and even Max Lerner...
They all know that though it bears little resemblance to a New Hampshire lake or Jones Beach, it's still a very nice place to play around in on a hot spring night while Junior frolics in dreamland and his pater dodges the academic flak...
...been deluged with wired offers from United Press, Advertising Age, etc., after the response of six lovelies to his want ad in the CRIMSON stating, "Jilted Freshman desires 120 lbs. of American womanhood," the fun ended last evening when he received a stultifying message from pater...
...self-righteous Headmaster calls "the three Cs: Christianity, the cold bath and cricket." They notably fail to learn a big D: democracy. Even among themselves, these young sons of bishops and colonels and bank directors practice an exquisite snobbishness. A boy's standing depends largely on whether his "pater" has "tons of tin" and what expensive delicacies stock his "grub box." The healthy mind in a healthy body, classic goal of public schools, degenerates into a mens corrupted by smut and a corpus battered by flogging...
...when Pater was ready to retire, Kent was a robust school with an enrollment of 299 students, and a handsome collection of colonial buildings beside the Housatonic River, worth some $1½ million. Boys still paid what their parents could afford (from nothing to $1,500 a year) but Kent was very much on the map of Eastern preparatory schools...