Dear guys
Could you please explain about the following items, taken from "Playboy" (biography of Jack Reed), "1919" by John Dos Passos:
a) what is "ivy orator"?
b) does "making clubs" mean going to different clubs?
c) "his blood didn't run thin enough for the very best clubs": does it mean he wasn't happy in expensive or pompous clubs?
Could you please explain about the following items, taken from "Playboy" (biography of Jack Reed), "1919" by John Dos Passos:
a) what is "ivy orator"?
b) does "making clubs" mean going to different clubs?
c) "his blood didn't run thin enough for the very best clubs": does it mean he wasn't happy in expensive or pompous clubs?
Reed was a man; he liked men he liked women he liked eating and writing and foggy nights and drinking and foggy nights and swimming and football and rhymed verse and being cheerleader ivy orator making clubs (not the very best clubs, his blood didn't run thin enough for the very best clubs)