Word: waif
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brat" is a waif--you never know her name, she herself has probably forgotten it--is picked hungry from the gutter to serve as model for a writer of best-sellers. He is hailed as a genius by his family, sought by all the females within sight and preaches ever and anon to his younger brother of the evils of his drinking ways. Mother and "Uncle John," the bishop, also do their best to impress on the same brother that he is sullying the family name and proving himself irretrievably the black-sheep of the family. "The Brat...
...voting failed to disclose any college sufficiently generous to take the little stranger under its wing and give it a name and pedigree. It is hoped that by tonight many beneficent members of the University will have come forward and signified their wish to adopt nature's latest waif by registering their votes in the office of the CRIMSON Building...