Word: vag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there's no getting around it," thought the Vagabond morosely. "It's a horrible prospect." Vag was sitting idly in the Widener Reading Room, where he occasionally came to sleep off a hangover. "I suppose in the long run it'll do me good, but it's still a terrible fate to have to contemplate," he cogitated as he pulled out his pipe, lit up, and disregarding the scandalized stares of the surrounding inmates, took in a long drag of the sweet-tasting smoke...
...pessimistic train of thought was an article the Vagabond had read in the morning's paper something about compulsory athletics, climbing over barbed wires, digging trenches, running all over the landscape, and indulging in other forms of senseless exhibitionism concocted by the sadistically inventive minds of the College authorities. Vag shuddered, as visions of physical exertion passed across his mind; it was a long, spine-shaking shudder, such as he was accustomed to utter when he saw his tutor walking toward him on Mass. Avenue...
...dozen station wagons, one-half dozen cars, one-quarter dozen trucks, one ambulance," Vag calculated in round numbers. They were all drawn up in three neat lines. and people were sitting in them expectantly. They all had bandages on their arms. More people with bandages on their arms ran in and out of Peabody School. Men with bandages on their arms walked slowly up and down the street. When Vag glanced at them, they quickly turned their heads the other way and hurried past. Everybody looked so embarrassed Vag thought it must be a raid. Since it was such...
...look so sheepish when they had become accustomed to walking up and down in front of their neighbors' houses. And the women liked riding around in station wagons and looking very efficient and wearing slacks. They all looked like they would enjoy coming out to play "incidents" again sometime. Vag thought it would be fun to be an Air Raid Warden...
...suddenly Vag's head cleared; the room became silent and motionless; the chair maintained a dignified silence. Vag reviewed the events of the day with delicious relish. It had started out as an ordinary day, nothing strange, nothing unusual. Vag had got up, gone to class, gone to sleep, gone home, gone back to bed. He forgot just when it was that he had got the news, or how, but he could never forget what that news was. Four B's! He rolled the words over and over on his tongue, four B's, four B's, four...