Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women and little children asking ''Will there be any Christmas this year?" Not the kind of Christmas that means extra comforts and luxuries; but just the supplying of the moat desperate wants of the most needy and helpless people on the face of the earth. A warm blanket for a grandmother shaking with cold and fever ($2); sandals for bleeding feet (50?); milk for the little children and the very ill; garden seeds for a leper man so that he may raise his own vegetables-perhaps with a hoe strapped to his stumps of arms; medicines...
Another, and more general problem, is the weighting which tutorial work should have in the scholarship grants. The tutorial reports now submitted are largely blanket recommendations, with an occasional blanket vote. Unless the tutorial work were rigidly graded, and this is for obvious reasons undesirable, the tutor is unwilling to assume the responsibility of affecting any man's chance to return to college by a comparative judgment, even if he were prepared to make one. The CRIMSON is inclined to the belief that this weighting cannot come to be important until the tutorial system is allowed to assume its destined...
...characterizations of reporters, press agents and politicians. Noted for his eccentric conviviality, Actor Tracy used to frequent Manhattan speakeasies with pockets full of cheese crackers and popcorn. Last week when 30,000 Mexican cadets paraded past his hotel he appeared on the balcony outside his bedroom, wrapped in a blanket. Throwing that off, he shouted profanities at the crowd, waved his arms in insulting gestures, committed a nuisance. Next morning he was ar rested. When he explained that he had forgotten what had happened, he was released. Later after a Mexican lawyer said that his daughter had been shocked, Actor...
...Spanish war, mules gained much in prestige by their plucky work dragging light field guns through Philippine hill country. It was a great day for simple, hard working "Maud" when she was rewarded with the title of "Army Mule," and was paraded forth in a new blanket to face the Navy Goat, and equally sad, the first defeat and the loss to the enemy of blanket and pride...
...beautiful sunset but is enveloped in a heavy fog a great number of days during the year. A prisoner with enough "guts'' could on one of these foggy nights plan his getaway, swim a short distance to a confederate in a boat and disappear under the blanket of fog, until he is caught again. Just because a man is a criminal does not signify he is a nitwit. They have just as much brains as the B.H.'s [Big Heads] and although they use them in a different way-i.e. against law and order- they...