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...Bunk". Thus Captain Brennan of the Harvard Square Police Station termed the declarations of a Boston paper that the torchlight procession of University students next Thursday night would be accompanied by any form of rioting. The paper in question had vividly described the police as polishing up rusty riot guns, releading and cleaning their night sticks and greasing the "Black Maria" in anticipation of a rushing business on Thursday night...
...ever caused any large amount of trouble has been the parking of cars. Drunkenness among the students is negligible; we have made only a very few arrests on that charge. As to the rioting which is expected to result when the students parade the streets--it's all bunk. There never has been any serious trouble, and I don't think there ever will be. I have been on the force for over 30 years and during that time we have had no trouble in Cambridge with the students on election night yet. So long as they have a permit...
...about the farm life of Calvin Coolidge and his ancestry. We are trying to prove to the farmers throughout the land that President Coolidge is a real dirt farmer, as were his father and his grandfather before him. And the best thing about it is that it is not bunk but the simple truth...
...told newspapermen that in a six-months' tour of America I had seen only four intoxicated people. Said I: 'These United States are a Sunday School compared to what they used to be. This talk about gin and petting parties is, for the lack of a better word, bunk I'" Alphonso XIII of Spain: "John D. Rockefeller and I were elected foreign associate members of the French Academy of Arts?I to replace the late Joaquim Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish painter; Mr. Rockefeller to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Shannon, of London. It was said that...
...gone to the side of those playwrights who devote three acts to putting the younger generation over their knee. One of the widow Helena's sons is a young shrub who is in danger of being plucked from preparatory school for loudly summarizing a patriotic address as "Bunk!" The other writes for a magazine ai which free love is the burning creed. The widow's prescription for curing them of the New Freedom is as follows...