Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But Daniel M. Pierce '49, president of the Stassen Club, called this a ridiculous possibility. "Stassen will sweep the convention," he confidently stated.
Some Yardgoers claim to have seen minions of the University Maintenance Department snapping shut the loathesome couplings, but this is obviously ridiculous. Maintenance men are nothing if not creatures of method and punctuality, and the very irregularity with which the Yard gates have been swinging shut of late definitely rules...
Although 1803 ballots have been cast since January 5, no mayor has been selected in the 34 voting sessions. Interspersed between each ballot, the council-men have slipped eggs in each other's pockets, joked loudly, and even refused to swing the tide by voting for themselves. Hundreds of Cambridge...
All that day in the barns, the stable hands talked. They agreed that Coaltown, a hot Kentucky Derby prospect, could "run like an "ape with a striped behind."* There was also talk about the strange noises Coaltown used to make, like a furnace roaring, when he breezed or galloped. Some...
From the viewpoint of the eldest daughter, the affection of Mama for her family is a very real thing --and so it is presented. The plot closely approaches soap-opera funny business in places, but any hokum is carefully avoided by careful character delineation and a constant vote of the...