Word: gent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion if you are the type who will be bored as the Glee Club sings on the steps of Dartmouth Hall, the kind of a gent who doesn't intend to play some part in the extracurricular activities, and a sap who will sit in the grandstand and talk to your girl friend while the boys dig their noses into the sod to bring glory to the Big Green, then you've picked the wrong college and should change your plans before it is too late."--September 13th issue of The Daily Dartmouth...
William Randolph Hearst, 82, seemed to be getting all set. Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. snooped around San Simeon, Calif., reported workmen building "an atomic cellar for the stooped old gent to disappear into when the next great war comes along...
...line and 183-lb. backfield know how to throw their weight around legally and still make it hurt plenty. Above all, Army has the two best backs to come down the pike in years. One is a human blockbuster named Felix ("Doc") Blanchard. The other is a jet-propelled gent named Glenn ("Junior") Davis. They make Army's cream-smooth T attack bubble and boil like no other T in the land...
...McClure haunted his usual bowling habits in favor of the "Diamond Horseshoe," better known as "The Pit." He was joined in his crimson by a portly gent from Wisconsin called Rob Rollain. We spied, about simultaneously with the house detective, our able friend Fred Diloreto eyeing the patrons in a local hotel with romance on his versatile mind...
...gent who devised every Bostonian's favorite quote, "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a minute and it will change," omitted a trio of vital words... for the worse. California was never like this...