Word: unwashedness
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*Great Lakes freighters are long, na-row-beamed, flattish-decked vessels, modifications of the original roundish-decked "whalebacks." The "whalebacks" were so eminently fitted for transporting bulk cargoes like ore, coal and grain that they became world-famed. So now, in popular usage, "whaleback" is often wrongly applied to any...
At Princeton University, "Dick" Cleveland figured as campus critic, as reformer. Ardent Wilson Democrat, he followed in his hero's footsteps by attacking the upperclass-men's club system. He associated himself with the so-called "great unwashed" (the socially unassimilated element of the student body) and refused the many...
Author White, oldest living native of U. S. parentage in El Paso, Tex., pours gentle, drawling scorn upon the romanticism with which Zane Greys and Harold Bell Wrights have invested the early inhabitants of the Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly...
If the value of art lies in the universality of appeal, then the much-tormented Jiggs of the "funny pictures" must be reckoned among the significant figures of American art, for a poll taken among restaurant patrons shows that corned beef and cabbage constitutes the favorite dish. Those who have...
As for the desire to eat--that human frailty which is so universally toadied to we can but scantily satisfy it. Certain of the undergraduates have their eating clubs, but the great unwashed (meaning the postgraduates) wander hungrily from the "Splendid" to the "Georgian", or dissipate at "The Betty Day...