Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interpretation of the returns of the Prohibition referendum yesterday shows clearly enough that the wets and half-wets of the University have met the enemy and he is theirs. The bone drys were somewhat stronger than the repealing wets but the supporters of light wines and beers swept the field; and that in spite of the fact that the questions on the ballot were so framed as to favor mechanically the dry contingent. In short in every University body except the Graduate Schools exclusive of the Law and Medical, the moderates outvoted the extremists of either wing...
...evidenced by the writers they have selected to aid them. Carl Van Doren, Theodore Dreiser, James Gibbons Hunneker, "a man who because of his official position cannot sign his name," and a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist)--all of them with some bone to pick with "nice people"--have contributed to the first number. Although the magazine will be a review, according to its editors "like every other monthly review the world have ever seen," it will be a review, as was the Repetition Generale in the Smart Set, seen through and colored...
...Washington, though, is the tough nut to crack. After I had wandered around there without any success for more than two hours, I was about to decide that the capital was as dry as a bone. Then I went into a barber shop for a shave. The barber asked me if I wanted bay rum. I told him I preferred real rum. He put me in touch with a $12 bottle...
...piece de resistance of the Committee's bill of fare was the decision on the number of delegates which each State shall send to the National Convention. The Southern delegations have long been a bone of contention because they voted heavily in convention but carried no Republican votes to the electoral college. "Unfair!" the Republican Progressives cried. "The Southern delegates are bought by patronage and corrupt politics, and they choose the candidates for which other Republicans vote...
...Middlebury team is expected to prove a much more worthy foe than was the Clark five. Their offense is built around Captain Axtell, a veteran forward. Holquist, half-back in the Middlebury eleven which tied Harvard this fall, is the back-bone of the defense...