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...pulled at Harvard by some of the biggest men in the country." Colonel Apted has a telephone and a cashbox beside his bed, is accustomed to getting up at all hours to bail out Harvard tosspots. When a socialite is arrested, Colonel Apted always takes along an overcoat to shield the boy from photographers. He lends Harvard men money, takes care of their parking tickets, runs their blackmailing floozies out of town...
Many of Richard Wagner's heroes (Siegmund, Siegfried) are huntsmen. Hunter Siegfried begins his career by bringing in a live bear, earns his spurs hunting a 20-foot, papier-mache, steam-spouting dragon, ends up by getting hunted himself and being carried home on his shield like a dead stag...
...After this barrage had cleared away ... four thirty-ton Russian tanks appeared from a timber clump and started advancing across the snowy waste to the foot of the hill. Crouched behind each tank were about twenty men, using it as a shield...
...fraternity, with the aid of sportswriters and sportcasters. Gamma Sigma has no college chapters, no fraternity house, no key. Its 900-odd members are divided into two chapters: Alpha (for All-Americans) and Rho (for also-rans). To become an Alpha and wear the All-America insignia (a shield with two crossed megaphones) is as great a distinction among cheerleaders as getting a Phi Beta Kappa key is to a bookworm...
During the half intermission, the band will give a rendition of a Yale medley, arranged by Leroy Anderson '29. For its last number, it has decided to form a shield with VERITAS in the center and march off the field...