Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rickety, rickety, rickety, rock, We leave Philly at seven o'clock, Leave New York smack at five; Ride the Reading, be alive-Rah, rah, rah, Seven o'Clockers...
...could discover that form, even, if necessary or desirable, resurrect those "prayers" with which it was begun. Though, under existing circumstances, that cheerful custom of the "beever" is no longer possible, the seating of the members of the house, and even the "thanksgiving" would not seem to smack too much of "imitation"--except, perhaps, the imitation of the great past of Harvard College. It may, perhaps, be argued that the revival of these former practices has no more to recommend them than the resurrection of kneebreeches and shoe-buckles would have, but that argument is in a sense beside...