Word: vag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They came-that strange four-to live with Vag almost as soon as he had returned to college in September. He chose their names out of the compact little gray course book and later checked up on their families in the Crimson Confidential Guide; but now that they were really going to stay with him, Vag wondered how well they would all get along...
There was Gregory Louis Hamilton, lean and dark, who liked to sit at Vag's desk and write in those great red and black law notchooks. Next came Phil who worked just as hard as Gregory, but he seemed to enjoy it a little more. He would sink deep into the armchair, suck on his pipe which was seldom lit, and nod at the thick volume propped up on his knees. Sometimes it was hard to tell if he was asleep or just reading...
...Vag never saw much of George, his third guest, although lie had sent him the first invitation. George was one of those easy-going fellows who could get along with anyone. He always had the radio on when he worked so that he was really listening to the radio and not working...
...gazed at the flowers, Vag began to attach tremendous importance to them, perhaps undue importance. Those tender petals had been the life work of Blaschka pere et fils. They had been publicized by Harvard and sanctified by royalty. And where were they? In a fire-trap if Vag had ever seen...
...right on the spot, Vag made a noble resolution. If ever he made a lot of money--the absurdity of the idea rather appealed to him--he would come back to Harvard and give them a brand new, fire-proof, fireman--proof museum with "I wandered lonely as a could" written across the front in Albanian. And now Vag's only worry is that someone may do this before he gets around...