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Word: whiffenpoofed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Soloist Robert Merrill singing Rossini's aria Largo al Factotum, and Whiffenpoof Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 22, 1949 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Everywhere we have gone, we have had a rip-roaring time," the Britishers declared yesterday after the Debate Council had shown them the College. "We've sung "The Whiffenpoof Song' with the Yale debaters at Mory's, and we had our first glimpse of the Pacific after our match with California, but right here in Cambridge we have been made to feel more at home than anywhere else on the trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Britishers Like U.S. from Mory's to Pacific | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

...Rudy Vallee, who made these words of Yale's Whiffenpoof Song nationally famous, lost his way? Last week he tried to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Time Goes By | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...rowdier patronage of the Oxford Grille and Cronin's Bar. White-coated waiters circulate through small smoky rooms amidst photographs of athletic greats of years gone by, and generations of Elis have left their marks on the old wooden tables. Focal point of the club, of course, is the Whiffenpoof table, where congregate those who made Mory's famous, the names of all past Whiffenpoofs being stylishly inscribed thereon...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Elis of Two Centuries Shun Ways of Crimson's Radicals | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...waiters at Mory's were appalied Friday night when a contingent of Red Raiders raided, sat down at the Whiffenpoof table, drank Whiffenpoof beer, sang Whiffenpoof songs (off key), and departed without paying, after signing a Whiffenpoof check...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/8/1946 | See Source »

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