Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though only 37 are listed in the business telephone directory, the operators themselves are authority for the estimate that Manhattan now has more than 4,000. New ones are being opened at the rate of about 50 per week. Like grocery stores some are run by individual owners, others belong to chains of 20 or 40. Small stocks are kept in the shops- enough for one day's trade. Chain operators go from shop to shop in the mornings, leaving supplies...
...This is no child's play but serious business. Athletics, to repeat, belong to the undergraduates and their teams, and if the true purpose of sport is to be prostituted in the name of philanthropy (and in this case it should be), no one has a greater right than the students to decide its destiny. The next step remains for the team to declare their willingness, and thereby their spirit of self-sacrifice, to carry on for an extended season...
Stressing the fact that the weight of College opinion is in favor of the charity game idea, the News makes the point that athletic teams at Yale belong to the undergraduates, and that for this reason the owners have the last word when a decision of this kind is hanging fire. Team approval is the only thing now needed to complete the matter, states the News...
...will be violated, if a club member, or members, cultivate the acquaintance of any undergraduate before the opening of his Sophomore year with such persistance as to indicate to him that he is under consideration as a future member of the club to which said club member, or members, belong...
Following, but not to the letter, the stories concocted by Author Booth Tarkington, Penrod (Leon Janney) steals a letter which his sister is writing to an admirer, reads it aloud in lieu of an English composition. He and his friends belong to the In-or-In Club of which Penrod is president. When obliged to initiate a sniveling little teacher's pet, they paddle him till he needs a doctor, slick down his hair so thoroughly with tar that he makes his next appearance with a shaved skull. Penrod and his friend Sam have a fight at a birthday...