Word: vag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wending his way up to 14 Plympton Street, Vag sobbed. How awfully sad it was! No more to see the genial conservative M.E., the boy who made Winnetka ill. The sporty lad from Milwaukee, the peerless peer from Cleveland, the genial South'n gennleman from Kentuck'. . . . The turnover of the Crime always made the Vagabond sad, but this was an especially unhappy night. He looked at his watch--4:12, time for a quick session with the pinball boards at Harry's Club. Man against machine, amateur against the elements, sucker against Gottlicb. Vag racked-up four frees...
...proctor was looking a little impatient as Vag walked up to hand him the bluebook, and he stared down the pacifying smile which seemed to say, "After all, I don't hold it against you personally." But Vag didn't mind, and even gave the man a sympathetic thought as he strolled out of the exam room--probably a grad student, he reflected...
Outside in the Yard the snow was melting dingily and people were waling fast with their coast collars turned up. Vag looked down at them from Emerson steps. Poor fellows, they probably had one, or even two more ordeals to face. No wonder they were rushing. In his place they would have all the time in the world...
Wonder just what I will do in the next week, Vag reflected. Of course there's always that reading I was going to catch up on for divisionals. But there's no sense studying the week after exams. And anyway, I might do better running around to see Professor Casner and the Navy people, and somebody over at the Busy School. That wouldn't take all week, though. Top bad I can't afford to go home, or even go away somewhere. Skiing maybe. Shouldn't have spent all that money over Christmas. Vag shivered, from the cold and from...
...there, Vag, how are the exams going?" He looked up at his interrogator and answered: "I'm all finished. Just had my last one." The other man grinned: "Want to change places with me?" Vag thought a bit. "No," he said, "I guess...