Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white shirt, his place in the line being filled by Faxon. This afternoon's practice will find the Junior lineman back at his regular post. Francisco, right end of the heavy combination, watched the practice today, Casey having given him a lay-off for the afternoon due to a bump received Saturday...
...whole exhibit is taken from the archives of the University with the exception of the Dunster family Bible and a portion of the wedding petticoat of Martha Dunster, daughter of Harvard's first president, which are loaned by the Dunster family. The exhibition, which was arranged by Miss Lucille Bump, will continue for about a month...
Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, returned to Paris from a brief Russian junket. Said he: "The people in the streets all walk quickly with grave, preoccupied faces; they do not smile. If they bump into each other they do not apologize. ... In Moscow the Opera is magnificent. . . . Every department is perfect. ... It alone seems to have escaped from politics, for the repertoire is the same as before the War. Children's theatres, which receive special government attention, are nothing but propaganda centres. In one I saw what were represented as aristocratic Red Cross nurses refusing to give common...
...favor of Curtiss Flying Service was set aside by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, and a retrial ordered in a $25,000 damage suit. Last fortnight a jury again opined that the Curtiss pilot was not blamable for a fatal crash resulting from an air bump...
Crime, in its bloody ugliness, would not drop from sight if underworld liquor traffic were ceased. Hundreds of "gat" toters would be without employment and without subsistence. Would that not be more of a temptation to commit crime than a mere "bump off" order from a whisky mogul? The underworld was not created by prohibition, but it has become enormously rich from its major industry...