Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scrub Joke. When it is 6:55 a.m. at Gettysburg Academy in Pennsylvania, two short, swart Mexican youths tumble out of their beds and then proceed to make them. They agree with President Hoover that their father is the one and only President-Elect of Mexico. They are studious Guillermo Rubio, 18, and athletic Fernando...
...bought an old what-you-call flivver last fall," reminisces Guillermo. ''For weeks we rode around making much fun. But one day the flivver broke down six miles from Gettysburg and we left it there for a good joke...
...lexicographer Samuel Johnson, whom Peter meets, only "thunders out a few platitudes." And when Peter absentmindedly reaches for a cigaret he finds only a miniature cabinet. On the other hand, he creates a reputation for brilliance simply by using, as though they were his own, remarks from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and "some cheap epigrams by a fellow named Oscar Wilde...
...caring for'* a more or less definite number of athletes, somewhat less formally than by awarding athletic scholarships." (The number discovered at the following institutions varied from 25 to 50: Bucknell, Gettysburg, Muhlenberg, Oglethorpe, Pennsylvania State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia Wesleyan...
Thirty-seven Army players substituted for each other so fast you couldn't tell who was in, but obviously Gettysburg was out, in spite of its one touchdown, Army 33, Gettysburg...