Word: chestnut
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...least five times a year every undergraduate hears the chestnut about the freshman who wore a coat and tie to breakfast one morning--and just that. It seems that he was determined to carry out University regulations to the letter. Whether or not this story is true, dining hall biddies have been so concerned this spring about keeping the undergraduate well-clothed that the incident is easy to believe. Another slightly less plausible explanation is that the cleaning biddies have communicated their perennial aversion to shorts, acquired from their habit of sweeping around those strewn on bedroom floors...
...Sunday evening, as a February wind knifed across Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill, four members of the new, reform-minded Republican Assembly knocked on the door of William Thacher Longstreth. The four had come to extend an invitation. It was worded to appeal to Longstreth as a former Princeton football star. an advertising executive and a lifelong Republican...
First place in the Greater Boston League will be up for grabs this afternoon at 4 p.m. when the amazing varsity baseball team meets the strong Boston College squad at the latter's home field in Chestnut Hill...
...Hungary, a reheated version of an old chestnut: In a Hungarian prison, three convicts were discussing the reasons for their arrests. "I was arrested for opposing the policies of Imre Nagy," said the first. "I was arrested for supporting his policies," said the second. Both turned to the most recent arrival. "I'm Imre Nagy," he said...
...that the girls in his designs are impossibly tall and willowy.) Actually Utamaro's work shows as much range as refinement. His first important series of prints was a book of insect studies, and his greatest depicts the wilderness upbringing of Kintaro, the Japanese Hercules. Kintaro Reaching for Chestnut is as healthy-minded, tender and acute a study of maternal devotion as Japanese art affords...