Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...
...Boston Licensing Board's ruling that bartenders may not eject customers will not affect taverns around the Square...
...prosperous underwear manufacturer and a representative of the middle class, would revolt against his day to day life for one of ideas; his son (Miles Morgan), a middle class moralist, "likes to know where he is;" daughter Hypatia (Helen Mareey) fights against her middle class associates who sit around and "discuss whether what other people say is right;" and Lord Summerhays (Thayer David) represents traditional English aristocracy...
Another dozen undergraduates are collecting $1 an hour around Greater Boston by playing Santa Claus in various department stores. Before donning their fur trimmed suits and white boards, the Santas must attend a two-day school to learn the traditional belly-shaking laugh. Applicants need not be fat, according to Holt, but a genuine liking for children is required...
John W. Holt, Ed.M. '45, director of Student Employment, termed the duck plucking detail one of the strangest of the many requests for student workers which come into his office around the holidays...