Word: wow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good laugh a day keeps the Blue blues away" seems to be the slogan adopted by the Yale crews in training at Gales Ferry. Every morning bright and early, the Eli oarsmen receive a gay, irresponsible little broadside appropriately emblazoned "The Daily Wow...
...Yale camp at Gales Ferry, a number of the oarsmen have turned newspapermen, and are publishing daily a paper of training camp news called "Gales Ferry Wow." The contributing oarsmen are also editors of the Yale Record and the Yale News, who have turned their hand to brightening the grind of the training camp through the medium of a humorous publication. Laughlin, stroke of the Yale crew, and also a cartoonist of considerable ability has made a decided hit with his caricatures...
...with a cargo of celebrities: Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian pianist; Clarence Dillon, who recently paid $146,000,000 for the Dodge Motor Car Co (TIME, Apr. 13); Colonel James A. Logan Jr., who has been unofficial onlooker for the U. S. at nearly every pow-wow of European diplomats for the past few years, and his bride (see MILESTONES) ; Miss Belle Baruch; and the unobtrusive Miss Collins, quietly sleeping in cabin F53-54 with a bunch of white gardenias reposing in a vase on her dresser...
...Wow! I'm feelin' awful funny...
...John Harvard have striven to convince the stubborn Elis of their inherent sinfulness, but the well-known disrespect of the undergraduate has been an insuperable obstacle to conversion. When confronted with the doughty, or doughy, legions of Mr. Grant, the Bulldog cannot but turn tail with a weak "Bow Wow...