Word: waterlooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent and hectic research into his moldy History 1 notes has told the Vagabond, with all that bluntness and clarity which characterized his first eager draughts of knowledge at Professor Merriman's fount so many "eras" ago, that Waterloo was an inconsequential little place near Brussels where a great British man called Wellington, whose family name was Wellesley, and a German man named Blucher, first recipient of the Iron Cross, were fortunate enough to crush a great French man named Napoleon on June 18, 1815. Napoleon, who once held a commission as second lieutenant of artillery...
...since this is a football day, that Vag is inferring that Napoleon was a good soldier who was eventually defeated; and that West Pointers are good soldiers who may meet the same fate today. This logic, however, is too shallow. Football is not war, nor is the stadium a Waterloo battlefield for either team. Columbia has already given the soldiers a taste of defeat; but then Napoleon came back strongly after his Leipzig setback. The Little Corporal once more reigned supreme for the Hundred Days--just about the length of a modern football compaign...
...Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, Britain fears the next war may be lost in London's alleyways. A year ago the Government began a campaign to make all Britons physically fit, and last week British citizens undertook a crusade to provide playing fields for the 5,000,000 British children who have no place to play but city streets...
...visitors poured last week until it looked like a crowded London suburb. All came to see a 100-year-old ceremony at a 500-year-old school-Eton's famed Fourth of June festival celebrating the birthday of Patron George III. They looked at the playing fields where Waterloo was won, watched the fireworks, the traditional cricket matches, the river procession of ten racing shells. They were no end impressed by the strange little chaps who on this day not only wear their top hats but are allowed to don colored waistcoats and wear flowers in their lapels...
...weathered hand-made tawny-brown bricks, each chosen with fond care and joined, as the Times said, with "a sympathetic mortar." Lest the 152-year-old Times lose some of its hoary atmosphere, a new rubber-floored proofreading room was paneled in veneer made from piles of the old Waterloo bridge...