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" ""I wasn’t long in the artillery; I’m a cadet retired,"" he said, and he began to explain how he had failed in his examination.
"") (9/10) The Virginia Military Institute suspended a female cadet for hitting a male upperclassman.
The cadet was among the first women admitted to the school under last year's Supreme Court decision.
I take the liberty of reprinting the glossary here, because some of the terms are far from common ( chippy, hootch , and century are perhaps the more familiar) and many are not included in standard dictionaries of slang: acecray outcray putting the ace on the bottom of the deck, where the dealer can abstract it bah-bah negligible object cake-slashing assault and mayhem century hundred dollars chippy dissolate girl chivvy unpleasant odor clip your tongue be silent cram the paper cheat at cards cut your chops mind your own business five hard a fist, or a punch frill girl, woman glued their traps remained silent going to the timbers retreating grand thousands dollars grease it pay bribe money, or blackmail hamburger down take it easy hock your skin make a difficult promise hootch liquor hotsprat trival but agreeable en- tertainment in the hole out of money lame your foot deprive you of assistance leathered kicked unfairly lippy-chaser a negro who prefers whites payman, a a cadet pinktail white person scrub face slide them into the eject them to the concrete sidewalk spreadeagle to knock down stick it capture something stick-stick defeated by the previous capture stretch jail term three-nine sexual variant thumb use the thumb to displace cards in a poker-game trip his muscle over-reach himself wraps, or skins, or strips dollars Bodenheim adds a note: “Most of the above-listed terms are peculiar to Harlem, but some of them are also used by whites in other sections.
” Slang's space cadet `an eccentric, especially one who is stuporous or out of touch with reality' evolved from “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet,” a 1950 television series depicting the adventures of a 24th-century cadet in the Solar Guides, the interplanetary police force keeping order in the Solar Alliance.
To ascribe the increase in prostitution to alleged importation, to the growth of the cadet system, or similar causes, is highly superficial.
As to the cadet system, abhorrent as it is, we must not ignore the fact that it is essentially a phase of modern prostitution,-a phase accentuated by suppression and graft, resulting from sporadic crusades against the social evil.
Why is the cadet more criminal, or a greater menace to society, than the owners of department stores and factories, who grow fat on the sweat of their victims, only to drive them to the streets?
Then, too, it is well to remember that it is not the cadet who makes the prostitute.
Thus the cadet system was the direct outgrowth of police persecution, graft, and attempted suppression of prostitution.
The count burst out laughing.
The other guests seeing that Shinshin was talking came up to listen.
Berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, continued to explain how by exchanging into the Guards he had already gained a step on his old comrades of the Cadet Corps; how in wartime the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him.
Berg evidently enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, too, might have their own interests.
But all he said was so prettily sedate, and the naivete of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that he disarmed his hearers.
The Pavlograd Hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau.
The squadron in which Nicholas Rostov served as a cadet was quartered in the German village of Salzeneck.
The best quarters in the village were assigned to cavalry-captain Denisov, the squadron commander, known throughout the whole cavalry division as Vaska Denisov.
Cadet Rostov, ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had lived with the squadron commander.
On October 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news of Mack's defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was proceeding as usual.
Denisov, who had been losing at cards all night, had not yet come home when Rostov rode back early in the morning from a foraging expedition.
Rostov in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly.
Another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but Bondarenko had already thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse's head.
It was evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to serve him.
Rostov patted the horse's neck and then his flank, and lingered for a moment.
""And I tell you, don't you dahe to do it!"" shouted Denisov, rushing at the cadet to restrain him.
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