Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early season game the prep school players defeated the Second University eleven by the decisive score of 20 to 6. The consideration of this fact merely exemplifies to a greater degree the prospective strength of the entire Freshman squad...
What was new, parents asked, last week, when the pageant of "prep" school boys moved across the U. S.? Mothers (as before) kissed their sons, counted their shirts, sorted socks. Mothers (of heroes) hoped for no broken collar bones. But during the summer the preparatory schools had been preparing. What had they that was new? This the anxious parents asked...
...Went to Prep School...
...Morris (TIME, June 18, page 4) is much exercised over the use of "frat" by "high schools and prep schools...
...midnight, Bentham returns, not very "Welcome Home" from six years of South America, lets himself into his boyhood brownstone house, where not even the Irish caretaker is stirring. Memories of his late irascible father haunt him as he climbs to his old room which is filled with prep-school photos and trophies and the heavy perfume of flowers. In the sudden electricity, the most beautiful girl he ever saw sits bolt upright in the middle of his old bed, and orders him out of the house. He returns next day to find her vanished. But Author Miller can be relied...