Word: pep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This may range from a half hour "pep talk" to years of non-credit English work, depending upon the student's particular difficulties. Offenders are nabbed at exam time when the committee sends graders and section men cards requesting the names of students whose English falls "below a standard . . . acceptable at Harvard...
...children of syphilitic parents or grandparents," he warns, "are never born equal to the child of clean blood." He inveighs against "the whining ingrate, the campus trollop of either sex, and the cinema degenerates, using pep hills to enliven their dreariness...
Ever since "Bank Nite" shows began to run afoul of local anti-lottery laws, movie exhibitors have been looking for a new gimmick to pep up the tired box office. Last week in Denver, where Bank Nite itself was invented, a theater man named Robert Patrick thought he had the answer: horse races on the screen that pay off to the audience...
Fresh from a cross-country concert tour, Metropolitan Soprano Helen Traubel turned up in Burbank, Calif, to check on one of her sideline investments: the hapless St. Louis Browns, midway through their spring tune-up. Part-Owner Traubel, in good voice, gave a pep talk to the players, then retired to a rooter's bench to watch her team win (6 to 5) an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians...
...London, half a dozen able staffers-most of them stout Socialists-have also quit, as fed up as Editor Chapman. Said Gordon Boshell, who had been hired to pep up the Herald's dreary feature page but left to freelance: "The paper doesn't want zip and it doesn't want brains. As a result, it's a dreadful hodgepodge of the mediocre...