Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those two beasts of burden, the Elephant and the Donkey, who began a year since to blow trumpet calls of allegiance to all Republicans and Democrats, were severely criticized for warming up for their race so long before the call to the barrier. Apparently no harm has been done, for although much water has since flowed under the bridges, they but made themselves fit for the great mud battle of March and April in Washington...
Benito Mussolini insulted Queen Marie of Rumania. The Queen's matchmaking plans received a brutal blow. Rumanian policies looking to an entente with Italy, a concordat with the Vatican, not to mention the marriage of Marie's second son to an Italian Princess, were roughly handled by Mussolini's masterful touch. All the Balkan chancellories are in turmoil...
...statute books of the state by a vote of 106,996 to 93,349. The law required parents or guardians after Sept. 1, 1926, to send all children over 8 and under 16 to public schools for the entire school year. It was a blow direct at the Catholic parochial private school system...
...that the quarter-of-ten project smacks of what are mathematically known as "Ingenious devices." Being temporarily thrown out of work--for fifteen minutes--the students would have to choose between going to Chapel and sitting on the steps of the New Lecture Hall. If the wind continued to blow at eighty miles an hour, this dilemma would undoubtedly stimulate many conversions: happily, spring is scheduled to begin on Friday. But the unfortunate part about this particular suggestion is that everybody would have to do penance by going to nine o'clock classes at a quarter to nine, lectures would...
Stralem was the winner with W. P. Dixon '25 of the fall Union tournament in doubles and he has won several tournaments abroad. His accident, coupled with the ineligibility of L. H. Bondi '25, a member of last year's University team, is a severe blow to the team...