Word: xxii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example of some the best in college humor is "At the Pleasure XXII." It treats, with outlandish seriousness, the recent Fisher Affair with its "Cloak and Dagger" aspects. The author presents some imaginary notes from the diary of the harried undergraduate underground organizer. "Wednesday. Enervated this morning. I think I am being poisoned by my enemies . . . To Students' Clinic in Hygiene Building, where examined after registering under false name . . . Retired early. Arranged some pillows to appear like sleeping form in my bed, spent the night on floor underneath...
...upsetters of thrones in history. But while Otto of Austria, Peter of Yugoslavia, George of Greece might hope (however mistakenly) one day to resume their royal careers, the Hohenzollerns could scarcely even cherish illusions. As a ruling dynasty they seemed to be as safely mummified as Egypt's XXII Dynasty...
WORK AND PLAY (Books XXI and XXII of Men of Good Will)-Jules Romains-Knopf...