Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This will be the varsity's lone appearance in Cambridge this spring, due to a quirk in the schedule, but the meet promises to be the most exciting of the year...
Pomposity, of course, has its place, but at Harvard an eccentric quirk, a naughty presumption to familiarity, even perhaps the audacity to view life through Kiwanian-colored glasses is regarded by the sedate, the haughty, the chic as being tres gauche. A return to childhood is in order...
...every county of the state, won by 115,000 votes. His victory followed a crunching split in the long-powerful Kansas G.O.P., where highhanded Republican Governor Fred Hall had thoroughly alienated his own party. Even so, the Republicans felt that a Democrat in the statehouse represented some political quirk of fate and would prove to be a brief nightmare. But once in office, Docking settled down to a program so different from Hall's that it pleased even some Republicans...
...helped Wiley win by picking off about 5% of Davis' conservative vote. He makes no bones about trying to trip Walter Kohler in the same fashion. "If Kohler is beaten," he explained, "the Republican Party of Wisconsin will have to nominate a conservative in 1958. If by some quirk Proxmire wins, he will be easily beaten in 1958 by a conservative Republican...
...missionary nurse. She was assigned instead to an insane asylum where 100 overworked nuns cared for 1,000 female patients. There she tended a countess who thought she was a dog and ate from a plate in the center of the floor, a onetime abbess whose chief quirk was to wear a brown-paper bag on her head night and day, and a dementia praecox case who thought she was the Archangel Gabriel and nearly succeeded in strangling Gabrielle to death...