Word: envious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...burden the breeze as it wafts the languorous strains of the "shimmie" tunes from the Union to Sophomore ears. How to make our visitors realize that the Junior Class is not the only class in Harvard! But those of us who belong to the favored fold proudly ignore such envious murmuring. Tonight the Class of 1920 reviews its past splendor and its future glory, and it is well satisfied with its own company...
...progress. At Breezeboro, where the action begins, she is capable of handling simultaneously a perturbed party of women at bridge and a high-placed matron of New York who has dropped down upon her. At Newport she has climbed to those higher social plateaus where dwell susceptible Russian princes, envious rivals--and troublesome servants. At Boston she has reached the heights of Beacon Hill and goes to and fro in a society that has only first names, that speaks the language of super-refinement and precision; and that is deeply and equally solicitous over the squirrels on the Common...