Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kieselhorst Yale '27: "There are too many red noses, blue nosos, and booked noses, and not enough ventilation in the squash courts...
W.E.H. Boardman, Yale '27: "The red tape in the H.A.A. office gripes me beyond words...
Charles Driggs 2nd, Yale '27: "The degree to which Harvard is over-organized and tied up in red tape is amusing beyond words, to say the least. The Bursar's office, for example, at Yale, is operated by two men and no more than three stenographers, but the size of the same office in Lehman Hall would make it seem as though the Bursar and his army of assistants at Harvard were running the United States. As for red tape, a fellow can hardly get across the street without showing his Bursar's card...
...protagonists are Harvard men, laugh, do not seek to reason why so-and-so went there kid so-and-so for having gone there, bet on the football game, the New London classic event, win, lose, forget all about it. I should expect to find neatly pressed clothing, red neckties, large wardrobes, pocket books and imaginations prevalent among the undergraduate body. I should realize, having quit the laissez-faire atmosphere of Yale for the savoir-faire atmosphere of Harvard, my intellectual inferiority to those who majestically point out buildings, tell us how to get to Soldiers Field, and invite...
Commenting on this statement, Strawn said, "There are a few lawyers still at the Bar who are wont to engage in the laborious and meticulous job of winding red tape. This type of lawyer is rapidly disappearing, for the obvious reason that that kind of exercise is not compensating, remunerative, or even interesting...