Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week my nine room mates and I offered Benny the Dook our broom closet, at Benny is still without a home. We regret to announce that our misguided respitality caused an international crists before the eagle (or inspecting) eye of Major Merriam...
...found a note after yesterday's inspection saying "Remove unauthorized object in broom closet." So we flushed enito down the jo-drain- and when last been he was floating down the Charles on a piece of balcony from the house on Clympton Street which has been in the process of being wrecked ever since we arrived at Harvard...
...closing, my nine (count 'em--nine) room mates and I would like to raise a collection of enough nickels and dimes to fill the coin box of ELIot 8361 sufficiently to persuade Western Union to send an invitation extending the hospitality of our unused broom closet (which has a semi-Murphy bed folded up in it) to Benny the Book, who probably would like to find some place that would be nice to come home...
...broom closet would really be a dilly, and after all the ten men and true of D-41 McKinlock can always, like the street car conductor, find room for one more. So rally round, boys, leave your small change with Uncle George and we'll get that cablegram off right away. Or possibly make last Sunday night's beer party a weekly event...
...proper archeologist is equipped for the most delicate digging and examinations with a small trowel, whisk broom, toothbrush, bellows and old fork-handy for cleaning out skulls. First the site is measured and mapped. Then the sod is stripped away and the soil is carefully peeled off, layer by layer, usually with trowels. Old holes, long since filled up, get special attention. They may show where houses stood, help toward determining the plan of a community. Dr. Wissler says: "To overlook them when digging is inexcusable. With practice they are easily dissected out." Other old holes may be trash pits...