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...sleep--in the good old cradle daze later entertained, diverted, but seldom amused, by stories of Harvard men, or further concerning Harvard men. I say we have not been amused: perhaps that is a trifle strong Whenever the story teller speaks as if his mouth were harboring a hot potato and says that in the way they talk around Boston, we laugh. That is only natural. But we also assume Harvard to have undergone adaptation to environment. A Harvard men must say "car" like a sheep with a cold in its nose, we think, simply because he likes to. Such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN "MOIST," ACCORDING TO ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF YALE RECORD | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

...potato diggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contraptions | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride and groom retired to the top floor of the Hotel Shelton, Manhattan, a Tribune correspondent was alone in smirking: "There was no throwing of plates or potato salad?probably because Mrs. Fifi Potter Stillman . . . was not along. But in the late afternoon, while reporters grouped on the Forty-ninth Street side of the hostelry, a bucket of water was tossed from the top floor . . . and splashed significantly near the scriveners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nice People | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Their game came to them. Elephants visited their purposely planted sweet-potato patch so regularly that the Johnsons could recognize individuals, give them names, know them when they saw them many miles from home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Jun. 6, 1927 | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

WHOOPS, DEARIE!?Peter Arno? Simon & Schuster ($1.75). Their weekly parade in the New Yorker (Manhattan smart-chart) has long been an event?Pansy Smiff and Abagail Flusser of the muffs and flounces and awry plumed bonnets, their potato noses high in air, their cavernous, Cruikshankian mouths thrown open in something like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whoops Sisters | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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