Word: beasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passengers. To the riders, the driver is a chronically exasperated ogre who delights in abandoning them on rainy street corners, or, if he consents to take them aboard, greets them with insults and treats them to bone-crushing lurches. To the driver, the enemy is a hydra-headed beast: a door blocker, a purse fumbler, and willfully uninformed. Jockeying his big green and cream-colored juggernaut down congested Madison Avenue one day last week, Driver James Coyne gloomily considered such frustrations...
...dining hall than because of respect for this silly regulation, I've usually made it a point to be "fully clothed" when I eat. Last Wednesday evening, June 7th, I was an inter-house guest at Lowell House. It was a bit warm, I acted like an uncouth beast. I took my coat off. Duty bound, the woman in charge of propriety, etc., came. The old story. I left, unjustly rankled at her (she does what she's told), but, I think, rightfully fed up with this archaic carry-over from the days of waitress service, spats, and ruffles...
...vivisection converged on Los Angeles' city council, the Rev. Mr. Rasmussen calmly supported the Navy's experiments and the ordinance stood. Nevertheless, at week's end harried Los Angeles doctors were still getting anonymous threats in the mail. Said a typical one: "You dirty, stinking, filthy beast. I would dearly love to beat you to death, as you would a little animal...
...does not the rabbi run? He cannot move; the chained Beast in the corner has entangled him. The mother under the drier, seen in the mirror, is already being burned...
Questioned last night, two Barnard residents refused to admit or deny that they have had dealings with the beast...