Word: scrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of Yale's ivied senior societies are required to stare stonily ahead whenever nonmembers ask them what their societies do. If the questioner persists,* members of such societies as Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key and Berzelius are expected to leave the room. Such behavior has sometimes led irreverent outsiders to suspect that the societies do nothing at all, except make mysteries of themselves, behind the bronze doors and windowless walls of their New Haven "tombs." But it has never prevented Yale juniors from hoping that they too will feel a hand fall on their shoulders at the traditional...
...Ralph Jr. Also on the welcoming detail: U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie and some bored policemen, assigned to handle an anticipated crowd of admirers that never turned up. Later in the week, though, the American Association for the United Nations announced that it was giving Statesman Bunche a scroll for "distinguished service...
...brilliant soldier in the glorious Army of the United States," Pearson thought thegeneral's acceptance of it out of keeping with President Truman's championing of democractic principles. The members of the R.O.A. thought otherwise. To affirm their confidence in General Vaughan, they presented him with a scroll naming him "Minute Man of 1949." Everyone clapped...
...little boy clutching the cross was Dean Acheson, who came to believe in a number of things: in having a good time, in the importance of Scroll & Key at Yale, in Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. But at the moment he believed chiefly in God and in Father. Father was the rector of the Holy Trinity Church...
...Capp, creator of the shmoo, got a double laurel. The National Laugh Foundation named him Cartoonist of the Year; the Yale Record gave him a scroll as 1948's ranking humorist...