Word: tom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them walked up behind a group of three women. Tom and Mike spoke in unison. "Hi! How's the party?" they asked, in a preposterously enthusiastic voice. The women ignored them. Tom and Mike laughed...
Third time paid all. Mike and Tom once more spoke together: "Hi! I go to Harvard." Probably more out of annoyance than anything else, the women turned around to look at Tom and Mike. But the two Harvard men decided it was not annoyance but the college that had worked for them. They decided they had found what the women were really interested in--the magic name...
Walter still stood silently against the wall. There were evidently limits to the name's magic. Tom and Mike got him on their...
Walter heard their story as the three rode the trolley home. Tom and Mike said it proved a sad stereotype. Going home alone, they were quite willing to believe that. Walter thought to himself that the story proved the Harvard magic name could work. In any case, the word would be passed about Pine Manor women...
...experience left its mark on Walter. If the name could have worked for Tom and Mike, why couldn't it work for him? He resolved that he would make it work...