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Disgruntled freshman scholarship applicants about this time of year are wont to repeat a Harvard legend of somewhat recent vintage. The story describes a supposedly poverty stricken young man, who, after a tear jerking visit to the scholarship offices, hied himself to Mt. Auburn St. and drove off to a Country Club in his Buick convertible...
...Jesus Christ!" she exclaimed as maids are wont to do in a crisis...
...stage. It is an inaccurate portrait," he concludes testily, "and it is even more inaccurate this year." All of which is most mysterious. We can understand assaults on St. Nicholas, whose ubiquity has cheapened the season's spirit, and on the scrawny puritan that well-fed Thanksgivers are wont to evoke. But why pick on the new year's babe...
...fireman's job is not the joyous round of pinochle games, maiden rescuing, and whizzing through streets that ordinary citizens, when forced to the side of the road, are wont to claim. He must answer calls in the most miserable weather, and if his beat happens to be Harvard, or another college, he can be sure that he faces heckling, flashbulbs in the face, and an agonizing spurt of low humor begun by the question, "Hey, why do you wear red suspenders...
Americans are notoriously apathetic when it becomes time to vote, a failing which curls the mouth of the machine politician into a broad smile, Perhaps the trouble lies in reasoning that one vote counts little: I wont' vote for X, reasons the stay-at-home, and Jones won't vote for Y; we cancel each other out. But while stay-at-home and Jones are listening for election returns, wellcoached interest groups are punching away in the voting booths, grinding out a victory over the disinterested...