Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From 9.30 o'clock this evening until 3 o'clock tomorrow morning the class of 1928 and its guests will make merry in Memorial Hall, for the twenty-second annual Junior Dance. Finishing touches are being applied to the hall and box decorations, but by the first dance this evening all will be in perfect order, and Memorial Hall will once more have donned its festive garb...
Then Pat Harrison, Mississippi funnyman, proceeded to pour salt on the wounds, said: "Let him [David A. Reed] go back and receive the cheers of the thugs and corruptionists of Pennsylvania and let them say to him that he is the Knight of the Closed and Corrupt Ballot Box. . . ." It was one minute before noon and the gavel of Vice President Dawes rapped sharply. "Oh, it's a shame to spoil a good speech like this," said Mr. Harrison. By the look in his beady-eyes, the Vice President had something curt to say. He said it: "The Chair...
...jail, the "capitalistic bastille," threatened. The great War broke out; on a soap box in the Public Square, Cleveland, Comrade Ruthenberg shouted, "War is mass murder." He was indicted, sentenced to one year in jail...
...everything except any longing for decency and kindness and reason." So they, and his well-developed thirst, lust and cowardice, drive him into the ministry. The first page finds him drunk in a saloon near his alma mater, Terwillinger College. Needing a fight, he lurches into a soap-box crowd that a pimpled Y. M. C. A. pipsqueak is converting, and flattens the hecklers. The Baptists gasp. "HellCat" Gantry, the black-maned campus bully with his boasted amours and loud contempt, get religion? The pipsqueak fawns and prays. A bully bigger than Gantry, "Old Jud" Roberts, praying (and weeping) fullback...
...hundred and eighty five couples and 45 single applications have been received by the Junior Dance Committee for the dance to be held March 18. Due to requests from members of the class, however, the Committee has decided to extend for one day the final date for box and ticket applications, which will make it necessary for all applications to be filed by tonight...