pudding club
Britishnoun
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Even the working classes preferred euphemisms, though theirs were decidedly better: “in the pudding club,” or “up the duff.”
From New York Times
Last year, the university considered banning exclusive clubs outright — including the Hasty Pudding Club, a social organization affiliated with the Theatricals — but decided late in 2017 to continue its policy of sanctions instead.
From New York Times
At Harvard, he quickly rose to become president of the Hasty Pudding Club, a famed theatrical club where he shared sketches and dance numbers with two future politicians, Charlie Baker, the current Republican governor of Massachusetts, and Deval Patrick, a former Democratic governor.
From New York Times
His obituary might well have ended there if Mr. Beck, a veteran of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club’s burlesque theatricals, had not borrowed a page from the Cold War satire “The Mouse That Roared” to score an unconventional diplomatic coup: For a decade he was the ambassador to the United Nations from the remote Western Pacific island nation of Palau.
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After leaving New York at 8:03 a.m. by train, Mr. Harris is up at Harvard as the Hasty Pudding Club’s man of the year.
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