Word: pup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. Churchill tried the trick of unleashing upon Leader Baldwin a cheeky and supercilious young man called "that pup!" in Mayfair where he used to work as a gossip-gatherer for William Randolph Hearst...
...pup happens to be Statesman Churchill's son Randolph. He went yapping out to Waver tree, a suburb of Liverpool rated as "safely Conservative" and tried to knife the regular Conservative candidate in a by-election last week by standing for election himself as an "Independent Conservative." Dashing about Wavertree, Candidate Churchill brandished banners reading "DOWN WITH THE OLD CAUCUS!" in which Father Churchill was defeated and "NO SURRENDER IN INDIA...
Died. Winks, Presidential setter pup: on the White House lawn, from concussion of the brain, after running into an iron fence while romping with a bull terrier belonging to a Secret Service man. Winks's most famed feat was the consumption of twelve plates of bacon and eggs, laid for breakfast in the servants' dining room of the White House...
...absconders are not to be found. News dispatches circulate the report that all Yale bewails the loss of her mascot, and that copious tears flow from the eyes of undergraduates as they reenter their Gothic cloisters empty of hand. No single student at Yale will rest peacefully until the pup is returned...
...come to the notice of the CRIMSON that streets of Cambridge are almost impassible; better, indeed, if they were impassible. Mt. Auburn St. mucks aimlessly through snowbanks, littered with cars, crossed at rare intervals by Alpine footpaths. A Dunster student was observed setting up a pup-tent just north of the Lampoon building at dusk the other day; word had come north that the Plympton St. Pass was closed to traffic. Parking automobiles is no longer a science, but a gamble. The insouciant police swing their arms in Harvard Square, the Street Cleaners dig in here, dig in there...