Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luckey Strike. The announcement, which many a Californian took to mean that he was wild to be governor and hoped to use the office as a springboard for the presidency, was just what was needed to get California politics tuned to its standard note of discord. It re-opened a party quarrel which had begun when Jimmy tried to scuttle Truman for Eisenhower. It also emphasized the rift between Jimmy and E. George Luckey, who as a faithful Trumanite had replaced Jimmy as leader of the state's Democrats...
...scenes into which the reader is lowered like a sound-stage camera on its boom, allowed to look on for a few minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them.) It is the title story, far from her usual pattern, which makes "The Lottery" an exceptional book...
...Annex will continue to use maids to clean halls, bathrooms, living rooms, and smoking rooms. Dormitory work chairmen will return early in the fall to get the plan started smoothly...
Another tradition, although less spectacular, has also fallen out of use. The Ivy Oration, beginning in 1865, was performed over a box full of class mementos which was buried solemnly against the west wall of old Gore Hall (where Widener now stands): Ivy was ceremoniously planted over the box, but when all the plants died in 1876, this custom came to an end. The Ivy Orator, of course, has survived, but the Oration that began as a sober dedication later changed to a humorous speech. Two of the more famous Orators have been George Lyman Kittredge '82 and Robert Benchley...
When the question was put to Valpey, Art stated that he was definitely impressed with Loewenstein and could probably use him for spot work next fall. Of course, if Cal should report on September 1 weighing, say, 165, it might be an altogether different story...