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Dick's father, Joseph, was a rigid Republican, the sort who considered Teddy Roosevelt a wild radical. Dick did not shake this Republican influence until he had fought with the Marines in World War I, returned to Yale, and become aroused by the way Republicans were assailing Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations. His defection to the Democrats shook his parents to their Republican roots...
Dilemmas & Differences. The hand shake may have looked awkward, certainly permitted less warmth and variety of delivery than the cocktail kiss. But it also posed fewer problems; in Chicago, for instance, where party circles often look more like squares, only good friends, college classmates and best friends of husbands and wives get kissed. In San Francisco, social kissing is frowned on for young adults and the unmarried, practiced mainly by married women over 30. Said an elderly man, withdrawing from a young woman's embrace: "I wish she wouldn't kiss me. It makes me feel...
These injuries have resulted in a surprise shake-up in the backfield. Usually reliable sources indicate that Yovicsin has been working All-Ivy fullback Bill Grana in the left halfback slot in secret sessions. If this is the case, Fred Bartl, who was encouraging in the Lehigh encounter, will start at fullback...
While they were inside, Death remained outside and prepared to destroy mankind. Death was presented as a grotesque buffoon called Nekrozotar, dressed something like a frogman, with huge teeth painted over his upper and lower jaws. "Aiee," cried Nekrozotar. "Smoke, froth, snort: animal! Make way for death! Shake the bells, set up altars, light candles, spray holy water, gnash your teeth, cry with bloody tears, chew ashes, devour each other, kiss each other, go to the left, go to the right, go up, go down, burn incense. The old world is going to perish. Hiue...
Deer in the Shower. Every Aggie joins the uniformed Corps of Cadets for at least two years. Senior cadets ("leather-legs") may wear breeches, boots and spurs, and mercilessly haze the freshmen ("fish"), who at all times "whip out" (shake hands) and cry: "Howdy! Fish So-and-so is my name, sir!" He-manship is undying. Hearty lads skin deer in the showers, carry Volkswagens up four flights of dormitory stairs, and work round-the-clock piling timber 100 ft. high for the purgative bonfire before the Wagnerian game with the University of Texas (U.T. has won 44 times since...