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President Jordan, Dean Sherman, Kirby-Miller, and Dean Cronkhite customarily receive visits from the girls. Last year the Jordans rewarded the Harvard songsters with old fashioned wassail and popeorn. The four officials usually prearrange which one of them will offer the girls food and drink...
...yeast-and sometimes a handful of rice or half-rotten fruit-into a dirty butter barrel" filled with water and allowing the mess to "make" for four days. "Don't be silly," said Thornie, dismissing Helen's alarm at the battle royal which invariably accompanied this wassail. "The boys are just having a good time. Just like kids. . .They really enjoy...
...Ample proof that 1942's term of "wolf" for a determined satyr is not new. Wrote a visitor to White Sulphur in the 1830s: "Unless you be young and foolish, fond of noise and nonsense, frolic and fun, wine and wassail, sleepless nights and days of headache, avoid Wolf...
...Westerner). To stuttering, slue-footed James Stewart, who stood low in this year's forecasts but high in esteem for an unrewarded 1939 job in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Alfred Lunt handed the prize for 1940's best male acting (The Philadelphia Story). As the wassail ended. Banquet Chief John LeRoy Johnston was last seen frantically bellowing into the microphone for winners "and Miss Lunt and Mr. Fontanne" (sic) to go below for newsreels. Ginger gushed a tribute to "my mother." Jimmy Stewart telephoned his pa in Indiana, Pa. Pa said bring the Oscar home, and there...
...Sword in the Stone (Putnam, $2.50) is a heady mixture of fantasy and fact, legend and history, with other assorted literary liquors-poorly blended and served lukewarm, disguised as cambric tea. This potion the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen for its New Year's wassail. The brew is not potent enough to make a reader pass out, but it may make some heads giddy...