Word: vag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vag might very well have found it inconvenient if the guest of honor hadn't been some one very special. He was Harvard's most famous professor, subject of anecdotes the world over, brilliant, witty, learned and slightly left of center. His students awesomely spoke of him as the Great Red Pepper...
...possible that the Vag might meet him. Oh, sure, the undergraduates would undoubtedly be introduced to the great man. And this was about the last time that he would ever get a chance to see the Red Pepper at such close range. For news had been trickling out of Washington that the Red Pepper was slated for appointment to a very important nine man sociological commission Even the orthodox trade association to which he nominally belonged was overwhelmingly in favor of his promotion...
...Vag found himself searching along the head table for his seat. Ab, At Last. At his right sat a Philosophy professor. Vag had taken Phil. A way back in his sophomore year. Now he didn't even remember what epistemology was. What was that course about? Oh, yes, Descartes. "I think, therefore I am!" That had been very simple. Spinoza... Spinoza... complete blank. Hume: If one billiard ball strikes another at a velocity of...Oh, well, who was on his left?... Directly opposite sat the House Master. God! This was the center of the table and sitting on the Master...
...Vag sat down expectantly. Three barren years of concentration in Government were finally to be enriched by communion with the all highest. The Phil man on his right was saying something.... Well, there would be plenty of time for the Red Pepper when they reached the main course...
Turning back, Vag found all attention centered on a match cover which the Master was holding out. Yes, yes, murmured the Red Pepper with a reminiscent gleam in his eye. He had been there, too. Vag strained his neck a little toward the matches. With a little more effort he might have caught a glimpse but he couldn't stretch his neck all over the table. He would soon be looking like a giraffe...