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...hanging out the washing") and dismissed the cook, being a whiz herself at smoked haddock, custard, and those parched tea dainties known hopefully by the British as "little fairy cakes." Harold smothers everything else in steak sauce, and the Government Hospitality Service takes care of banquets. It was frightfully pleb to the ex-cook, Alice Green. "I would have made the best of it," she sniffed, "but Mrs. Wilson wanted to be a housewife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 27, 1964 | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...Harvard we don't haze Freshmen any more, but at West Point they still devil a Pleb., and at Brown they soap the neophyte, - perhaps because he needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLANGOGRAPHY. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

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