Word: weevils
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...boll-weevil, a creature who bores from within...
...came to our next meeting at Phillips Brooks House, and with the air of a professional newspaper reporter whipped out a pencil and notebook. ten of us were seated at the round-table. Our Harvard junior manipulated his pencil. He never spoke. The function of a boll-weevil is not to speak but to bore. After the meeting members remarked to me that they were not being favorably attracted to the Harvard student. The impression which his notebook had made on me had not been entirely pleasant, but I reasoned that here was a student accustomed to take notes...
Externally he was a Harvard junior. Internally he was a boll-weevil in full operation. It seems that every movement has its Judas...
Joseph P. Lyford '41, who recently revealed the Harvard activities of the Yankee-American Action, was yesterday termed a "human fly and boll weevil" by Edward H. James, leader of the group...