Word: bostonism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall and reasonably fast Boston University quintet appears at the Blockhouse at 8:45 p.m. tonight, as Norm Shepard tries to make it two in a row. Shepard's varsity beat Tufts 67 to 56 Saturday, but he expects the Terriers to put up much more of a fight...
Representing the Boston Hotel Association, executive secretary Charles Coyle reiterated the "importance" of Crimson victories to hotel men and stated that hotel managers as a whole "are delighted to help the players." He doubted, however, that part-time jobs are plentiful enough to make practical a formal program by which hotels would unite to secure jobs for football...
...Boston Post Office Department officials today released a notice urging the public to mail their Christmas cards and packages early this year. Special days have been set aside for handling mail to various areas of the country...
...Ballet Theater returned to Boston last Monday night after an absence of two years to let the public see a week of good dancing again. Unlike two years ago, when this same company played to a near-empty theater, the Opera House on opening night was filled to capacity...
There were two Boston premieres in the Ballet Theater's program for Monday. The first of these was Agnes De Mille's "Fall River Legend," which is "suggested by" the story of Lizzie Borden, who "took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks." It is an interesting theater-piece, but made so mostly by the miming of Nora Kaye and the sets of Oliver Smith...