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...came if he possibly could, and those who had no right of admission to the Meetinghouse (on the site of Lehman Hall) where the degrees were conferred came out to watch the procession and see the sights. Cambridge common was covered by tonts of huck-sters, cheap-jacks, Indian basket-sellers and medicine men, sellers of gingerbread, purveyors of run, keepers of dancing bears, and ladies of easy virtue. The College Corporation was much worried by these raffish accompaniments to their solemn exercises. Unable to persuade the Cambridge authorities to keep the populace in order for Commencement brought money into...
...that it was his turn, there wasn't going to be any corn; into the waste basket with the themes and the programs. No corn; well maybe a little, wistful melancholy, all very civilized, all very Chekhovian, "This is the way the world ends. . ." He'd have another drink or two, a few reminiscences, but under control, and then out into the hot sunlight, pack his books and pull...
...their walled courtyards. Everywhere in the ancient capital jealous men gathered and listened. Then angry groups marched down the Street Called Straight, surged by the ass and spice markets, the tombs of Saladin and Fatima, the places where Ananias lived and St. Paul dropped down the wall in a basket. They bore rifles, revolvers, axes, sticks & stones...
Dorothy Lamour and her husband, Army Air Forces Captain William Ross Howard III, entered their cottage at Arrowhead Springs Hotel, heard a rustle in the wastebasket, investigated. Announced Captain Howard: "It's a cat." He overturned the basket, said: "Scat!" The skunk scatted. So did the Howards...
...soldiers have been dreadfully maimed. Brig. General Fred W. Rankin, chief consultant in surgery, reported: 1,194 soldiers have had limbs amputated;* 68 of these have lost two limbs. Rankin added, "There was not a single triple amputation nor was there a single quadruple, or so-called 'basket type' of case...