New Utrecht High School - Comet Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Go find Cyclone. We need him. Dont come back without him. 'But where should l look fo . . 'lSilence. Look anywhere. l don't care how but find him. And when you come back, remind me to ask you to assume the angle. Yessir. Then vouch. The Pledgee had received the necessary aid to propel him through the door. u Who is the editor of the Clarion'? asked a meek, little girl stand- ing in the doorway. 'll am. What doyawant? Doc said. B' l gotta story for you. lt's about the poster contest of the yearbook and . . Look, Doc eulogized. 'lYou're a nice little girl, you write beautifully, it's the best story l ever read but, and Doc blew up, 'lget the dickens out of here! We're trying to put out a paper! The door slammed shut. Silence. And then. l-liya folks, ln walked Ace. UBoy have l got an idea or have l got an idea. Boy oh boy it's a honey. 'lWhat are you back again? asked Claudia. 'lYep it's me in the flesh and rarin' to go. Listen to this . . . No, gimme a typewriter. l'll write for you. Quiet reigned for awhile. A knock on the door. Who is out yonder? Newsy yawned. lt's me-Pledgeef' 'lEnter, yelled Doc. 'lDid you find him? 'lYessir. l-le's in the Deans office. l-le cut l-listory to listen to the Make-Believe Ballroom. l-le's got detention. Detention-wand no sports page. Qwwwwwf' Doc fainted. As usual the paper came out-a day late. LOVE LETTER l love you dear, the letter read, Written in pale green ink The words were full of feeling More feeling than you think Of course, the letters shook a bit, And some were far apart, But to be sure the words were there And came right from the heart. l want to come and kiss you dear, Now you may think that bold, But really, how are you to know, It was written by a five year old? 1 Florence Schneider Twelve

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On Naming Dogs The modern lady taking her pet bull-dog out for an airing, curious to know how her pet arrived at his name, will be told a not-too-pretty story. The ancestors of the modern bull-dog were used for bull-baiting. The dogs, put upon the bull, tried to seize him by the nose and hold on. The bull tried to gore and disembowel the dogs. lt was difficult for the bull to toss a low-set dog, so short-legged, heavy animals were bred. Also, when the dog sunk his teeth into the bull's nose, the flesh swelled up and covered the dog's nostrils, making it difficult for the animal to breath. Breeders consequently bred dogs with turned up noses, the characteristic feature of milady's bull-dog. On The Crigin of Words When you say a house and lot you may not know it, but the word LOT is as American as Plymouth Rock. ln fact, it was first used on Plymouth Rock. When the Pilgrims landed, they divided the land in the simplest way they knew. They drew lots for it. Thenceforth, every man's share of land was called his lot, The word, in the sense, is used only in this country. lt has never been used in that way in Great Britain. On ulalopiesn Every schoolboy knows what a jalopy is, lout who knows the origin of the word? Old Broken-down Fords, frequently were exported to Mexico, many to Ialapa. Hence, in Southern California, any floppy car became a jalopy. lalopy is of Yiddish-Polish origin, writes another, and is really a transliteration of the word schlappe, meaning an old nag or horse. ln its present form it is applied to cars of old vintage with little power and anemic appearance. On Wrong Ways Publicity dogs Wrong Way Corrigan's footsteps like a faithful hound, and some of it is not of his own manufacture. A wrong way pulse, an abnormal condition in which blood is permitted to flow back into the heart because of the faulty closing of the aortic valve, is known to medical science as a Corrigan Pulse. This disease occasionally results in the pulse disappearing for a short time. But doughty Douglas Corrigan had nothing to do with this wrong way pulse. The abnormality is named after Dr. D. I. Corrigan, a Dublin physician who died in l88U. Fourteen