Word: damp
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Boot Spur cabin was built in 1938 by students with the help of an old trapper. Members claim the cabin's bedding facilities will house 24, but add that more can sleep on the somewhat damp ground floor. Since the U. S. Forestry Service requires the door to be always unlocked, many college groups use Boot Spur cabin. The H.M.C., however, asks each visitor to contribute 25 cents to the "kitty...
...needs to learn how to hold his liquor," the master of Silliman College, Theodore M. Greene, said, "he might as well o it under home conditions. There's no use forcing him to go to a West Haven bar ... they've got to go awfully wild before I'll damp them." When damping is necessary, it usually takes the form of discreet removal from the scene of trouble and then gentle counsel--on first offense. If the wicked fail to learn, the Masters may ask them to resign from the College, or at worst, suspend or expel from the College...
Pesky Problem. The source of Sault Ste. Marie's epidemic was plain. Last March five youngsters with ringworm were allowed back in school too soon after routine treatment by their family doctors. All summer the disease spread (encouraged by a long damp spell and barbers' unsterilized clippers). Not until school opened did authorities realize how far it had got out of hand...
Wearing a mannish hairdo, Joan Crawford plays the overneat Harriet Craig with sexy emphasis. As her thoroughly housebroken husband, Wendell Corey is careful never to drop ashes on the rugs, sit on the arm of the sofa, or put a damp glass on an end table. Besides riding herd on Corey, Joan bullies her servants, snipes at the inoffensive widow next door, tries to break up K.T. Stevens' romance with William Bishop. Her ineffectual villain'es come to a head when, to prevent her husband's going alone to Japan on business, she defames...
...best sections of Collected Impressions are those which deal with damp-rotted Irish country houses, with Author Bowen's school days, and with her own maxims on novel writing. Samples...