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Word: woosters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just the same, usually just as good. Some critics attribute this titillating timelessness to the fact that he has raised the stage Englishman to the dignity of literature. Others have called him an acute social critic, professing to see the blunderings of Munich foreshadowed in the maunderings of Bertie Wooster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRISONER WODEHOUSE | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also Mr. Mulliner, of the bar parlor at the Angler's Rest, and his multifarious nephews. And there are the legends clustering about the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRISONER WODEHOUSE | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Both Boston and his chief assistant, Joe Nee, will be beginning their first year as Freshmen football mentors. Boston was a Varsity quarterback for three years, while Nee starred at guard. Both men have had previous coaching experience Boston at Cleveland and Nee at the Wooster School in Danbury, Conncetient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROSPECTIVE GRIDDERS OF '44 REPORT TODAY TO BOSTON | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

Assisting Boston as line coach is Joe Neo, who layed guard on the teams of 1935, '36, and '37. He comes to Harvard as Freshman line coach from the Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING GRID PRACTICE TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

George W. Bergquist, of Minneapolis, Minn., Harvard '38; Gordon F. Bloom, of Buffalo, N. Y., Buffalo '39; James MacG. Burns, of Burlington, Mass., Williams '39; Arthur A. Compton, of Chicago, Ill., Wooster, '39; Charles H. Coombs, Jr., of Brockton, Harvard '40; James George, of Toronto, Ont., Canada, University of Toronto '40; Paul G. Haaga, of Memphis, Tenn., Tennessee '37; William E. Jaqua, of Claremont, Calif., Pomona '38; Charles F. Kiefer, Jr., of New York, George Washington University '40; Arthur A. Maass, of New York, Johns Hopkins University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 28 MEN GIVEN FELLOWSHIPS FOR BUSINESS RESEARCH | 5/23/1940 | See Source »

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