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...biggest news around here--that is, besides Boegie Campbell's new girl friend--is the Drexler nuptials, to be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow. Alack and alas, big Fred is going to leave the happy ranks of us bachelors and descend into the arena of marital strife. No more staying out nights; no more staying after 1600; no more money. But I suppose there must be compensations. Anyway, all are invited to the ceremony which is being held at the Chapel in Hahvud Yaad. Bill Cousins is going to be best man and is selling tickets good...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: *The Lucky Bag* | 11/17/1944 | See Source »

...alas and alack, and sad to relate Misfortune did him befall. His grade in the quiz was one point eight And now he's in study hall. Percy Ingerman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENSIGN FISH | 3/26/1943 | See Source »

...refer to the Harvard student, touched by the first soft breath of spring, throwing open his window with the cry, "Oh, Rinehart!" (TIME, March 30), you would have your readers believe that was some obscure Harvardism for "Pshaw!" or "Alack-aday!" Actually, it is nothing of the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...FIRST great local news for Hub art lovers since John Singer Sargent last walked off Beacon Hill happened this week when Francis W. Dahl, the idol of Twentieth Century Brookline, published his first book. But alas and alack, it doesn't measure up to what the artist is worth. Dahl chose for his first little volume his worst representative works, the "Left Handed Compliments" that greeted Harvard's Herald readers when they returned from their Christmas vacations, written after he had broken his right arm in an auto accident...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 3/19/1941 | See Source »

This is a very melancholy occasion. The Campus wears an air of desolation. The robins on the green have suspended their animation and are belatedly scurrying from the deluge. Mournful ejaculations of "well-a-day" and "alack" ascend from the midnight cloister. Even the "A" men are trembling in their boots. It is all rather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/30/1935 | See Source »

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