Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't. Everybody knew about "the Veep and the Widow." Introducing Barkley at a Washington dinner last summer, Attorney General McGrath called him "the Squire of Paducah and the New Spirit of St. Louis." In September, asked by newsmen about marriage rumors, Barkley replied: "In any such eventuality, I will be chasing you to tell you." Two days later, he added: "I have no way of knowing whether I'll make the grade." The newsmen gathered in Mrs. Hadley's apartment in St. Louis' West End knew that he had. Said Barkley: "Our courtship has undergone...
First, it means that if a student is interested in anything at all, he's got to be interested in Princeton. There's nothing else around. The result is one of the biggest displays of college spirit and confessed rah-rah-ism in the East: Princeton is one of the few places where over 300 persons will parade in a rally for the freshman football team...
Princeton rah-rah is the kind of spirit that sends a student to cocktail parties wearing short plants and knee-length orange-and-black socks, or to a football game in a tatooed jacket depicting a man potted in an ash-can, with the motto, "Sic semper parti pooperus...
...administration's liberal outlook on class spirit isn't characteristic. Much to student annoyance. Princeton has a conservative Dean's Office that contrasts with Harvard's laissezfaire attitude toward students...
...toss footballs on the campus and tack Esquire calendars to his walls, because the College counts this as part of school spirit. But he can't take a date anywhere except gymnasium dances and juke-box joints until the middle of his sophomore year, when he gets into one of the seventeen eating and social clubs. Unless he's in the unlucky ten percent...