Word: perfervid
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...much like "Men Prefer Blondes" to appeal to those who say that be tripe fish or few! the "New Yorker" is tripe, but I insist that it is worth reading, especially at mid-years when life is not half so gay and careless as the last lectures of most Perfervid Professors might lead one to believe...
...Perfervid Professor watched with a pleasure even sensuous the slow drop of the curtain and the slow rise of the lights. "Delightful", he murmured, "Delightful." The Person In The Next Seat smiled, revealing bridgework and the brilliance thereof, smiled and nudged the Perfervid Professor...
...Perfervid Professor did not faint. He was in New York. "No--no", he answered, "It was Latin." He turned to his program...
...fable above is not really a fable at all, for there was a Perfervid Professor. In fact there are hundreds of them. And as for People In The Next Seats, there are thousands of them. No, this is not a fable; it is an introduction. It introduces to Plympton Street and to the world at each end of Plympton Street, and even beyond, a column worthy longer and wider streets or greens or whatnot, a column which will at worst be a cenotaph, at best a pillar of salt. For, "if the salt shall lose its savor"--whereof the column...
...sporting pages and acquire a sense of proportion about life as we shall probably live it. For the whole fall term, and for part of the rest of the year, football makes us live from Saturday to Saturday in a side-show of $100,000 gates, imported betting touts, perfervid enthusiasms solely on one subject, and semi-professional right guards. We object to overdoing...