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...sandy waste known as Fort Bragg, where Hargrove lived and gold-bricked, is just what he cracked it up to be. Strange and quaint people and officers, fantastic programs, and unbelievable feats of training squat sweatingly there. Forty-five former Harvard ROTC men will to I you so any day, to the tune of the Caisson Song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD GI FINDS LIFE STRANGE IN FORT BRAGG | 10/29/1943 | See Source »

...Briggs Hall, the Alcove. The Alcove is no secluded nook, as its name might imply, where one may while away spare moments in intimate conversation with a friend. It is, rather, the equivalent of the corner drugstore, the village post-office, or somebody's backyard. It is a quaint combination of laundry, shower-room, and telephone booth that none but a Navy mind could have dreamed up. Here of a sunny afternoon, any day after four o'clock, the following scene is sure to be enacted: the shower going merrily, the washtub bubbling over with soapsuds, the ironing board...

Author: By Ensign ETHEL Greenfield, | Title: Creating a Ripple | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

...sake of expectant posterity, especially that Soc. major of 2043 writing his thesis on those quaint old days when, even during a war, people had time to sit solemnly around listening to men twang cat-gut, blow straws, and thump on pigskin, it might be well to take leave of my sporadic incumbency of this post by letting off a little steam re music criticism and the state of music in general...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League of American Vipers, but that is another snory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rejoycings | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

Barring catastrophies, unexpected reversals, and the other quaint tricks which make sports events unpredictable, John Chase's hockey team will romp to its second straight win tonight when it faces M.I.T. at the Boston Skating Club in a fracas scheduled for 8:15 o'clock...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Varsity Hoopsters Face Brown; Pucksters Meet Underdog Tech | 12/9/1942 | See Source »

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