Word: worming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content with the rebuff which the University administered last year in connection with the 500th anniversary of Heidelberg and the similar problem of a Harvard representative, the Reich, with Brontosaurian lightness of touch, attempted to worm into Harvard affections by persuading Ernst Hanfstaengel, '09, official pianist to Hitler, to offer a scholarship. This scheme, nipped at a discouragingly early stage in its development, Germany has come across once, more, hoping that the balmy spring days along the Charles will lure the University into a trace in which anything will be possible--even the acceptance of a third bid from...
Disciples of Izaak Walton report that fishing in the muddy River Charles is no better this spring than it has been in years past, especially that sector which flows by the University. But the rod, worm, and fly boys are not utterly downcast, for Widener is close enough for all students. And Widener, strangely enough, has become a fisher's heaven, at least until a month from today...
...partner who remained silent while the elder delivered his message in the University News Office, their second stop at Harvard. They were both dressed in dungarees and old clothes, the elder claiming that they had a message from God to go forth in old clothes but clothes that were worm and comfortable...
...expected to resign at least once more. This was good Chinese tactics since the often-postponed Kuomintang Central Executive Committee- roughly corresponding to a Chinese parliament or assembly -was at last meeting in Nanking and it behooved the Dictator to intimate politely that he is a miserable worm, thus provoking exquisitely complimentary replies...
...Harvard boys seem to have acquired an ability to do gracefully that which they should not ," smilingly observed Eugenia Rawis as she observed several exam-worm specimens toying with cooling refreshments in the Ritz bar last night. "They are just too, too . . . ." but the Jane of "Pride and Prejudice" current at the Colonial left that up to the imagination and became more serious...