Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hedda divorced DeWolf, who objected to her movie career and resented her equal earning power ($1,000 a week). For Hedda was there when the flickers were born. She knew Hollywood in 1915, when it was a village near Los Angeles. She knew Sam Goldwyn when his name was Goldfish, and played in several of his pictures in the Biograph studio on New Jersey's Palisades...
...student body, too, has been under scrutiny. The veteran majority has worked hard and played hard. On the surface it has been calm, but underneath there has been an unusually tense competition for scholastic honors. While there has been little of the goldfish-swallowing type of revelry, interest in almost every field of extracurricular activity has been high. Activities which lapsed during the war have been revived. And while Dean-elect Bender and others have frequently pointed out the egocentric nature of the present undergraduates, they have at least been individually conscious of the significance of events outside the college...
Back in the racoon-skin days, admiring Harvardians with time on their hands used to sit in the stands all night, watching the proceedings. When the gals said they appreciated this attention but felt a little like goldfish as a result of it, the HAA stepped in and "restricted the area...
...heavily financed or obstreperous Student Council election campaigns the Council set the limit of ten dollars as the maximum which any candidate or his supporters can spend in electioneering. No stipulation was made as to the manner in which the ten dollars can be spent. "They can swallow goldfish if they think the intelligence of the average voter is low enough to be influenced by that kind of campaigning," said Council chairman Richard G. Axt '46 at the end of the meeting...
Jubilee Committee elections in the past have featured such campaign stunts as the swallowing of 13 goldfish and the consumption of 29 ice-cream cones at a single sitting...