Word: peps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard rooters will climax a pre-victory parade in the light of their own torches when they assemble in the Varsity Club Quadrangle tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock for the season's biggest pep rally...
...roaring throng at last night's gala pep rally have it their way, the boys from the New Hampshire hills will be unable to paint the town green tonight for the first time in eight years...
Very definitely it will not be a "pep" rally; there are depths to which Harvard cannot sink even when it's out to avenge itself for eight years of having to watch the Soldiers Field goal posts break under a wave of green coats and pants after the Dartmouth game...
Hope tries hard to pep things up by wearing a negligee, insulting old women, hiding in a bait box full of anchovies, etc., but it's no use: the hoary farcicle smothers his brand of fast, wisecracking humor. For his truth-telling pains, he wins the $10,000 and Paulette Goddard. Perhaps it's Hitler's fault, but telling the truth isn't very funny any more...
Last week, as he hustled to Clipper home from China, where Harry Hopkins had dispatched him (at $1 a year) to pep up lend-lease traffic on the fabled Burma Road, Speedster Arnstein had again done his stuff...