Word: rakishness
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...costumes are glittering and colorful; Katharine Cornell, superb; Lowell Sherman, sedulously rakish...
...whole, the Yard looks much the same. University Hall has not yet assumed its February gravity, and perhaps Holworthy appears a trifle rakish; but these things will adjust themselves in time. The atmosphere is strangely familiar. There is the same haggard-faced individual who informs you that only eight C's will stave off his forced retirement at Mid-Years. The same cheery greeting from the man who has forgotten your name; but, shaking your hand warmly, asks what kind of a summer you have had, and makes a careful note of where you are rooming this year...
Second thoughts, however, dash, these hopes for fame. One has but to remember the song "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" to see that we do not stand alone in our wickedness. And is there not a moral of some sort attached to the expensive, rakish horses and turnout of Pendennis...
...particular, the CRIMSON should give some non-financial reason for continuing its obnoxious liquor advertising. To be sure, the advertisements this year have taken a less disgusting shape than formerly; the brewers have become modest, and no longer flaunt their waers in our faces with an are of rakish conviviality; but why should the CRIMSON hesitate to do what most reputable newspapers and magazines have long since done and expel such advertising altogether? College papers are traditionally idealistic. Some of them have been the pioneer spokemen in movements for civic betterment. Shall the CRIMSON chcose to stand aloof from this...
...long time since any team has been able to rush a Harvard eleven off its feet. On Saturday, a shift of rakish appearance but one presenting nothing brand new continued to puzzle the University all through the game. Even after it had been sized up, even when the players must have had an accurate idea of what was going to happen, they were unable to stop it consistently. This is the most disheartening feature that the team has yet displayed. It means basic defects, and indicates that most of the men who played Saturday are below standard...