Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hardly a full day out from Cherbourg, churning her white wake westward into the seas of the leviathans, steamed the only Leviathan remaining. Her skipper, Captain Hartley, leaning into the wind upon the bridge, had had his last night's sleep within his bunk for he did not know how long. Into a towering gale, momentarily increasing, swept the vessel. Great seas pounded her. Within her thin steel walls reposed a freight of notables. David Warfield, the actor, returning from sojourn abroad; Julius Fleischmann, the yeast millionaire, turned racehorse breeder in his postmarital retirement; two baseball teams, the White...
...Campaign bunk is affecting the American people less in this election than in any previous one, in the opinion of Professor W. B. Munro, G '99, given while he was discussing the result of Tuesday's balloting...
...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...