Word: boston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, Mass...
...Ignatius, aged 7, trudged over the hills around Worcester to gather wild berries and sell them. He picked enough, and did enough odd jobs, newspaper-selling, errand-running, to put himself through school. He was president of his class. From Holy Cross he was graduated in 1893, from the Boston University Law School four years later. At 24 he began to practise law at Fitchburg. At 27, as a "common people's" Democrat, he was sent by a hidebound Republican district in Worcester to represent it at the State House in Boston. He was Massachusetts' Lieutenant-Governor...
Strangely for once a Boston audience seemed to warm up and get into the spirit of the piece. By the middle of the second act very nearly everyone in the house was hissing the dark sleek villain and wildly cheering the hero and his virtuous sayings. It was indeed an unlooked for pleasure to see spectators young and old clapping their hands in high glee in time with the music and stamping heavily on the accented beat. The atmosphere was extremely contagious, and few found it possible to stand aloof from the general merriment...
Fortunately enough Mr. Casey, Boston's estimable censor, was either absent or could see nothing wrong in cheering so long as there is no pecunlary advantage in it. Consequently the production was allowed to continue on to its ultimately happy conclusion much to the satisfaction of all present
...serves as a beneficial tonic to a morale that tends to become dispirited through the monotony of playing the same teams. In keeping with this attitude those in charge have arranged outside games for both the class and dormitory teams. The former have played Cambridge Latin, Rindge Technical, Boston English, Boston Latin, Brown & Nichols, Tabor Academy and Mechanic Arts; the latter have met the Andover Seconds, South Boston, Brown & Nichols, Thayer Academy and St. Paul's School. In the inter-class league, the informal outside games were preliminary to the objective class series. In the inter-dormitory league they were...