Word: serpent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good. It is a rule established in civilized countries that horses eat oats, men eat bread, and the barnyard fowl eat anything they can get. However, this rule does not hold in the less highly cultured parts of Africa, where, it is rumored, polite society is fond of serpent and other things, nicely browned...
...expected that crocodile-green and gila-monster-pink will make their appearance in Flanders, side by side with serpent mottled and zebra striped. The armies may view with each other in sartorial battle for the most striking colors, and soldiers parade along Dead Man's Hill as civilians parade on Fifth Avenue. The familiar cloudblue, sand-brown, and leaf-green uniforms will be passe as are hoop skirts now. We may suppose an army clad in giraffe spots combatting victoriously at Potsdam, and taking time to change to ostrich-white and black before entering the capitol in triumph...
...leave Harvard square for Otis Wharf. 8.30. Hotel "Griswold" sails. (Water cure discovered useless for sea-sickness). Rest of the day: Bathing, lunch, baseball game, and track sports (relay race between Class Odor and Class Poet). 5.00 P. M., or thereabouts: Homeward bound. Half of Class sees a sea-serpent. Other half sees two. On landing, meeting is adjourned to hear Harvard Night at the Pops. (NO Silent Knight either, believe...
...African Dodger will resound with the lusty spheroids, and the Fat Lady will draw in a long breath. A continuous amateur pie-eating contest will provide many opportunities for skill and capacity, and there will be other games where magnificent prizes reward the successful. The great Siberian Sea-Serpent vies with the Tattooed Albino, and the Empire City Quartet with Signor Caruso and the Black Hand Chorus. Seniors are asked to come in costume if possible. Tickets at 25 cents may be obtained at the Co-operative branch. Leavitt & Peirce's, the Union, and from members of the committee...