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...point. As a wise friend of mine once said, “Join the Spee, join the Phoenix, join the Porc, join the Delphic, join the Fox.1 Join what you can, and before you become an investment banker you’ll be a big-time on-campus booty-spanker...

Author: By Jacob Rubin, | Title: How To Get Play At Harvard College | 5/1/2003 | See Source »

...country miss, Grace Harkaway, for her money. But before he can get Grace to the altar, his dashing and disobedient son Charles falls in love with her. He arranges to draw off Sir Harcourt with a fresh scent, the county's hardest rider to hounds, Lady Gay Spanker. Naturally the proceedings are hampered by a covey of long-winded subplotters, plus every other known theatrical device, all of which Eyre has the gall to retain only to dispose of them with affectionate derision. Grace's pretty speeches are greeted with yawns, a tender love scene is made ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Parody of a Parody | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...Adventure of Sail 1520-1914 by Captain Donald Macintyre, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. 256 pages. Random House. $25. Far more sea-and eyeworthy than the usual splendiferous, spanker-sized boat book, in part because it offers longish selections from the writings of Conrad, James Cook, Lord Nelson, Richard Dana, George Anson and others. More notable, though, is the broad range of paintings and illustrations, and the fact that whoever did the captions miraculously knew a lot about things like rigging-and caption writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $3.95 and Up | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...live groups, some of the members of whom are refugees from the BVDeed Football Band have been serenading themselves and others for several weeks from a variety of locations. The two beat section, The Harvard Banana Orchestra (the band with appeal) featuring "Hot Lips" Loring, "Slush Pump" Pines, and "Spanker" Spencer holds forth on Wednesday evenings. The Gillespieites under "Rebop" Whitehouse give out on Thursdays. Holden Chapel, a building which has seen nearly everything during its two hundred and two years of existence is destined for at least one new sight when these two groups introduce it to le jazz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...year-old French lieutenant, Rodolphe Victor de Drambour. No hatches on the little ship were big enough for the enormous crates. He cut open the side of the ship, pushed the dissected goddess straight into the hold. Throughout a 72-hour storm with canvas cut to staysail & spanker, Lieutenant de Drambour stayed on the bridge of his ship, while the crates shifted wildly, threatened any instant to sink him. Two days after his 20th birthday he dropped anchor off Sandy Hook, welcomed by the New York World, the New York Yacht Club, the U. S. Fleet, and a spanking good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Liberty's Jubilee | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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