Word: around
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crowd clamored at his tortured shrieks, rejoicing around the pyre till that which was once a man had become but bones and ashes. There were women in that mob in great numbers, singing at the gala day. Women! Those chivalric and holy women of the South to keep whom pure the last Southern gentleman would shed his romantic blood. The flower of chivalry! Did womanly pity, did womanly sorrow, which is the greatest compassion our race may know, move their hearts then? Did they weep at this bestiality...
...Cohasset, a member of Section 4 of the American Field Ambulance, has been decorated with the Croix de Guerre. The citation says that Bigelow's car, while running through a most dangerous zone, was hit and pierced and badly damaged by shell fragments during the German attacks around Verdun...
...remaining schedule of the University Glee Club has also been cancelled on account of the national situation. Concerts in New York and several cities around Cambridge, as well as the joint concert with the Cecelia Society in Symphony Hall, have been called off and a very successful season for the club brought to a close...
...Boston, and with John Barrymore and Mary Young taking the leading roles, made a record run on Broadway. The play has since toured the country and has proved itself particularly adaptable to amateur and especially college productions, as it abounds in witty lines and amusing situations. The plot revolves around a $30,000 wager that the leading character can elude the police for one year. A phrase "Believe Me, Xantippe," habitually used by the fugitive reveals his identity, and he is arrested but wins the wager on a technicality...
...alarm fire partly destroyed the Spee Club at 15 Holyoke street last Monday night. The blaze is believed to have been caused by defective wiring, as most of the fire was centered around the fuse-box on the third floor. The damage was estimated...