Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoboken didn't like McFeely. He was tough, glum, nickel-pinching, semi-illiterate and vindictive. When he left the seat of a dump cart for politics, he cultivated Democratic Boss Paddy Griffin so obsequiously that he was nicknamed "Me Too Barney." But when Paddy got sick in 1925, McFeely had what he needed to grab Paddy's power: he controlled the police and fire departments and thus almost all Democratic campaign funds...
...enough. Only 17% thought advertising prose "silly." But more than half thought advertising was often in bad taste. They objected to detailed references to bodily functions, ads with the gossip theme (the "careless" beauty who becomes a social outcast) and sexy illustrations (44% would completely ban the nude or semi-nude...
...House tennis tourney approaches its final stages, Bill Eustis of Winthrop is pitted against Dunster's Dick Firth in one semi-final match, while T.A. Gresbam of Leverett, another semifinalist, is waiting for his next opponent to emerge from the ranks...
Earlier this week the Varsity lost another pitcher to the Ivy League semi-pro rulings when Freshman-veteran right-hander Ralph Hymans was declared ineligible since he pitched several games in the Northern League before entering College...
Last year "Copey" came out of his semi-retirement to revive his famed Christmas readings with a serving of "Dinner at the Cratchitts" by Charles Dickens. When George Santayana '86 and Robert Benchley '12 heard it in their respective college days, it provoked them to diverse literary expression on the piece. The humorist was inspired to parody, and the philosopher to eulogy of Copeland as "an artist rather than a scholar...