Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students in the University, and especially those in the Graduate Schools and Law School, are warned against a group of swindlers who are operating in Cambridge, and selling low-grade domestic cloths as expensive imported goods. Two of the pseudo merchants generally go around through the dormitories together, traveling in a Ford touring car. A heavily built, dark man usually carries the cloth, while one of a group of accomplices, giving a different name and card each time, sells the cloth. To disarm suspicion, they often mention the name of a well-known student as recommending them, and also speak...
...Advocate. O. Prescott '20 has produced an original variation on Stalky by Inserting Professor Babbitt, under the title of Hugo and Humanist, into two pages of frivolous conversation; and "Billet Ballads No. 4," by J. F. Leys, '22, is a mixture of Kipling's early Indian manner with the pseudo-English of the Saturday Evening Post. One serious flaw is common 'to' both these versious. Nothing happens in them; nothing even seems to happen.- Whereas Kippling had the gift of making his pages appear riotons, although both thought and event were often totally absent...
...Lautner '21, leading tenor of the Glee Club, who will appear as Algernon ("Stuffy") Danforth, the pseudo-romantic lover, will have four of the best songs in the show. A. Palmer '20, as "Bogus, a bally butler," has an eccentric dance specially which is equalled only by his song in the second act called "Khuh-Khuh." P. L. Cheney '21 has the part of "I'm al Waze F'hul," who is featured in the song "Sniffies," and in a dance of the triple-jointed variety...