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...publication this year. The book is another collection of poems, but with a difference. All of them, like the title, are built on spoonerisms, or pairs of words in which the first letters are transposed. Example: "Runny had to bake a tath/ Before they'd sive him gupper./ He got so tungry in the hub,/ He ate the rat of mubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Children's Books of 2005 | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...Gupper '26 upheld Mencken on the ground that his chief efforts have been to create a new and distinctive American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENCKEN SUPPORTED IN LANDSLIDE VOTE | 3/26/1926 | See Source »

...Gupper '26, E. C. Sibley '28, and T. S. Fain '27 will make up the affirmative squad which will travel to Providence to uphold the question, "Resolved, that this house deplores the condition of intercollegiate athletics in eastern colleges," against the Brown debaters. The negative team which will argue against the Wesleyan squad will be composed of Barrett Williams '28, S. N. Loronzen '28, and D. E. Scoll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Men Retained for Debates | 1/12/1926 | See Source »

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