Word: funning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle long ago concluded that "people have more fun than anybody." Last week the colonel was having more fun than most, dishing out his own peculiar brand of nonsense on Vaughn Monroe's glittery variety show...
...would be great for school spirit," he asserts. "Just think of the fun you could have burying Mr. Yale in there the night of a pre-game rally...
After Harvard, where he says he concentrated in "fun and football," Woodman worked as agent for an English publishing house for a few years, and then after a year's sojourn in Europe, went to teach at the Morristown School in New Jersey, where he held "not a chair, but a settee," and afterwards became headmaster. In 1905 he wrote to his Class Secretary, "We are living the simple life, and are trying to teach the rising generation how to live it. My experiences have all been concerned with the training of the American boy, a very fine species...
...while the California scientists played like small boys with their dangerous new toy. The neutron beam smashed almost any atom. It cooked up any number of radioactive isotopes. But there was more than fun & games afoot. The monstrous cyclotron was on the trail of something important...
Then as I tell them how much I like Hanover and Dartmouth, and how much fun it would be to go to Harvard with them, and wear a green tie, and cheer for the Big Green, they start to tell me what their plans for pranks are. This is what I'm waiting...