Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their breaths, carnival girls on their laps. A cooch dancer came out and began her undulations. Through her Oriental veil, Bobbie Spencer recognized Helen, the blonde witch whom he loved and had persuaded that very afternoon to quit the show business. Maddened, sickish, he tried to drag her away. Showman Blackie intervened. When Bobbie lunged at him, Blackie drew a gun and fired...
...tarnished little dancer who had the misfortune to return his love also had the courage to save him from herself. She had failed to disgust him by her appearance at the smoker. This time she went up for a parachute jump, came down dead. At last Bobbie could go away from the clamor of grind-organs and bawling voices...
Died. Mrs. Murphy, 75, of Manhattan, dowager hippopotamus of the Central Park zoo, first of her species to enter the U. S. (1880), relict of Caliph I, mother of Caliph II; of indigestion and senility; in Manhattan. Her teeth and appetite had worn away. Her last meal was a meagre 60 Ibs. of chopped hay, 30 qts. of mash...
...Svacha takes off bridal veil and replaces it with kika (headdress of married woman). Father of bride gives away his daughter. Mother of bride leads her daughter to groom's parents. Father of bride strikes bride with whip (ancient ritual, symbol of submission) and then passes whip to groom. Girls and bride dance to ancient folk-song-the whole company becomes increasingly intoxicated. All dance a ronde and sing, while a man and his wife from among the guests enter the bed to warm it with the heat of their bodies. Drushka and Svacha bring dishes of food...
...daily academic grind across the Charles. Another, who has trouble in covering large reading assignments, however simple, will not indorse any course in which the facts to be mastered must be gotten through voluminous reading in assorted text books. Still another, who likes to spend the week-ends away from Cambridge, will not take any course which comes between the mystic hours of noon and 1 o'clock, for the very simple reason that the fastest train for New York leaves the South Station...