Word: phi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today," wrote Brother Cleveland, "fraternity folk pretty much direct the affairs of the nation. The White House is 100 per cent. Greek letter, with President Coolidge flying the royal purple of Phi Gamma Delta and the First Lady of the Land wearing the arrow of Pi Beta Phi. Vice President Charles G. Dawes of Delta Upsilon guides the destiny of the U. S. Senate. Nicholas Longworth, of Zeta Psi, is in command of the House of Representatives...
...Hughes as well as the Vice President belongs, "gave Garfield to the Presidency"; that Beta Theta Pi has never "given" any one to the Presidency but that it enrolls Frank Orren Lowden, William Edgar Borah, Robert Marion La Follette. "And here is a scoop. . . . Harry F. Sinclair ... is a Phi Gamma Delta brother of President Coolidge. Will Hays is a former National President of Phi Delta Theta, which gave us President Benjamin Harrison...
...answers to the regular examination paper which was given to all Harvard seniors specializing in English. They were not allowed to help each other, but the smoking of cigarets was permitted. They sat in old Connecticut Hall, where Patriot Nathan Hale once roomed. On the Yale team were eight Phi Beta Kappa men, one dark horse and John Knox Jessup, campus wit, who last autumn wrote on his page in the Yale Alumni Weekly: "Harvard men cannot be said to aim at, for they essentially are, good form...
...once realized in a tournament that something was wrong, but did not discover until after the match that her opponent was left-handed.-Her "Poker Face" ("a point I have never before discussed") is due to concentration rather than, as popularly supposed, lack of emotion.-When they pinned the Phi Beta Kappa key over her fast-beating heart she experienced one of the happiest moments of her life.-All players who have turned professional she mentions in the pluperfect tense.-And though she declares Jean Borotra well-named the "Bounding Basque," Betty Nuthall one of the best liked visitors...
...athlete, undefended from the time of the post-football lull in news, when for services rendered he was analyzed and damned by a score of professors, has now the last fellow in misery that he would want--the Phi Beta Kappa Man. For Mr. Thomas Slocum, writing in the current issue of the Advocate, has reduced the key man--who has been pretty triumphant lately, what with Dean's prizes and English literature sweepstakes, and all--to the low estate of the athlete. The unfortunate fact is that to attack either is the very height of unsportsmanlike penplay, for both...