Word: yaleman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fellow's sister was sort of sacred when Frank Merriwell went to Yale. There have been changes since. Cramming on summer vacation from Hawley School, A.D. 1935, future Yaleman McGough, G. F. turned to future Yaleman Baxter, C. K. and said: "Now, about this sister of yours, Baxter. Which does she prefer, rape or seduction...
Assisted by his son, Yaleman John Dirks, 39, spry Rudy Dirks now works two days a week to turn out The Captain, spends the rest of his time painting landscapes and portraits in oils. The Katenjammers are drawn by Joe Musial. The Captain runs in fewer than 100 newspapers.v. The Katzenjammers' 300 (including Hearst's New York Sunday Journal-American). Dirks Sr. and Jr. argue, nevertheless, that the original Kids, as portrayed in The Captain, are the more "sympathetic" of the two. Explains John: "When the Kids set off 8,000 tons of TNT under Der Captain, they...
...Yaleman William Buckley Jr. kicked up a noisy foofaraw with his God and Man at Yale, which accused Old Eli of subverting both capitalism and Christianity. Later, Patricia Buckley published an article in The Freeman accusing Vassar of having a leftish tinge. In a letter to her fellow alumnae, Aloise made much the same charge against Smith. U.S. higher education managed to survive-but it will not soon forget the Buckleys...
...Wisconsin's Republican Attorney General Vernon W. Thomson, 51, had been waiting three long terms for right-wing Governor Walter Kohler to step down, got his chance to run this time, whipped Yaleman ('38) E. (for Edward) William Proxmire...
Cooper's fellow Republican, however, had a tougher hill to climb. Former U.S. Congressman Thruston Ballard Morton, 49, also a Yaleman, astonished politicos in Kentucky's normally Democratic Third District (Louisville) by winning three successive terms to the House (1947-52), but he is virtually unknown outside the district. In the backwoods mining settlements of "Bloody Harlan" County, the mountaineers did not take kindly to the "furriner" with the citified manners and precise diction. But Kentucky's strongly TVA-minded citizens nonetheless liked the way that Morton frankly tackled questions on such local boiling points as Dixon...