Word: burg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poetry Foundation was established in 1929 by Morris Gray '77, who left the income of $10,000 to bring contemporary poets to Harvard. T. S. Eliot, Carl Sand burg and N.E. Cummings have appeared under it's auspices...
Ronald Charles David Breslow of Rahway, New Jersey, and Lowell House; Peter Schuyler Brown of New York City, and Eliot House; Maurice Benjamin Burg of Newton Center, and Adams House; Paul Cecil Martin of Long Island City, New York and Kirkland House; Richard S. Palais of Brookline, and Kirkland House; Earl Cedric Ravenal of Providence, and Eliot House; Neil Joseph Smelser of Phoenix, Arizona, and Adams House; and Issac Thomas, Jr., of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Lowell House...
...Kleberg always kept most of his prize Santa Gertrudis bulls for the King Ranch, but other cattlemen sought them so avidly that each year he obligingly sold a few, at a standard price of $350. The waiting list grew so big that Bob Kleberg (rhymes with hay-burg) decided to try an experiment...
...hang th' torpedoin' on me, but the [crooked] beak gets th' office, an' comes down. He goes f'r me, puts me on th' bricks, an' hands me two grand an' tells me t' breeze th' burg; which I does. Well, when I hits Frisco th' bulls know me. They frisk me an' pipes the case dough. I tries t' tell 'em it's square jack, but they don't fall, an' th' nex' thing I knows I'm doing...
Back on the Williams burg, the President burnished the yacht rail with his elbow like a Gay Nineties bartender, and called to reporters, "What'll you have, boys...