Word: vag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With just the merest hint of deviltry in his roving eye, Vag waited for the big event of the day at Braves Field. It was Reading Period, but so what! Encased in his now rather shoddy seersucker jacket, with a Chesterfield protruding not at all jauntily from his mouth, he waited while a man in a double-breasted suit walked onto the field. Today, of all things foolish, they were going to raffle off a '47 Packard, and what was more silly, he was waiting around on the hope that he would win it. Of course he never won anything...
...Vag walked out of Memorial Hall into the sunlight, and breathed a deep, deep sigh. Well, hour exams were over. For a moment he gazed absently at the small, almost blank piece of paper, and then crushed it into a ball and pitched it into the gutter of Cambridge Street. The throwing arm didn't feel so good. As Vag strolled down through the Yard, now almost completely shaded by the trees, he decided that he had still been right in coming during the hot months. But the Yard was almost deserted; there was only one word...
...Vag gazed at the excavations for the new library, where a pleasant little hill had been. He remembered walking up it countless times on the way to Warren House, in the days of compulsory exercise and English A themes. The place was changing, Vag thought, as he crossed Massachusetts Avenue. On the corner of Plympton Street, two fellows in crew cuts and seersucker jackets had just thrown their weekend bags into their Ford and were starting the engine. Suddenly Vag remembered it was Friday, and he was taking the two o'clock out to the Cape. He quickened his pace...
...Vag broke off as he saw in Pendrake's eyes the defensive glaze one assumes when listening to a religious or political fanatic. He extended a hand and said, "Goodbye, kid. Lucy's expecting...
...would never seem so far off as now, Vag mused. He watched the dispirited retreat of Sturtevant's bulk and felt only compassion. In spite of himself he was reminded of a wounded elephant's search for the graveyard...