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...occasionally got the best of Belloc. To this elite, as he called them, Old Gunner Belloc (he had served in the French artillery) felt free to unlimber a bristling battery of high-caliber snarls against his numerous enemies. They included "poisonous cads" (British peers), "blundering savages and cosmopolitan riff raff" (Russian Communists), "filthy greasy hot Armenians," the "German herd [who] do not reason . . . that is why they take refuge in music," "eunuchs," like Thomas Carlyle, or "screaming Eunuchs," like Hitler, and, of course, "damn fool Editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Grumpy Man | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...JAMEEL RAFF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Lester Lanin gave his monogrammed beanies to appreciative dates as he played, but one Clubman remarked that very few members were dancing because "even when you make it a closed party and hire a bouncer, all sorts of riff-raff get in." For one reason or another there wasn't the spirit that the visitor remembered from New Haven last fall...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Chilled Crimson Intruders Find Little Cheer at Princeton Clubs | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

Radcliffe juniors and sophomores will vote today and tomorrow for next year's class officers. Nancy Fisher, Grace Kennan, and Helene Raff are nominees for senior class president; the junior ballot is still incomplete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Voting Starts Today On Class Officials, Marshals | 3/25/1953 | See Source »

Executive board members-at-large will be Anne McReady '53, Helene Raff '54, and Vicki Blass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Clubs Choose Officers at Radcliffe | 4/24/1952 | See Source »

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