Word: sage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guide books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, likes to quote from a parody of the series called Rollo Visits Cambridge in which Rollo asks Uncle George, "what is a Dean?" and his sage relation answers: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman scated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then Dean Leighton sometimes adds, "laying aside my solitaire for the moment...
...guide books for children in which a character named Rollo asked endless questions of his Uncle George. Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, likes to quote from a parody of the series called Rollo Visits Cambridge in which Rollo asks Uncle George, "what is a Dean?" and his sage relation answers: "A Dean is a sedate gentleman scated at a table playing solitaire, but he is also sort of a beadle, 'an official guide to the University' allowed to receive no fees for his services." Then Dean Leighton sometimes adds, "laying aside my solitaire for the moment...
Based on Uncle Clem's Boy, by the late Mrs. Will Rogers (played by Jane Wyman), the picture traces Rogers' career from Oklahoma cowpuncher to Wild-West-show trick roper, vaudeville lasso artist-monologist, and poet lariat and sagebrush sage of stage, screen, radio, banquet table, speakers' platform and syndicated column. The picture ends with Rogers' death at 55, during an Alaskan flight with Wiley Post...
Drunk & Fired. Gene Howe was the son of the moody, melancholy Ed Howe, the "Sage of Potato Hill," who made his Atchison (Kans.) Globe one of the most quoted papers in the nation and wrote Story of a Country Town, a bitter novel about small-town Babbittry. But young Gene Howe never had an easy time of it. He quit high school after two months, was often at odds with his stern father who once wrote in the Globe: "Three Atchison young men disgraced themselves . . . Saturday. The publisher's son was the drunkest of the bunch." Even when Gene...
...that the Spalding Pavilion perpetuated the segregation which they hate-besides a separate kitchen and laundry, it even has its own morgue. The majority were satisfied to have the physical plant, as good as anything Atlanta has for whites, and to let the segregation issue work itself out. To sage Dr. Mays, the important thing was that, for the first time, Negroes had taken a part in the planning from the start-it was "not just something done for the Negro by the white people...