Word: cantabridgian
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...planned by the Phillips Brooks House to help the unemployed has met the official approval of the City of Cambridge represented by Mayor Russell, and a useful place to put the money received has been suggested. Four thousand of the American unemployed, excluding the students of Harvard College, are Cantabridgian. The City Industries Board, which could best handle the proceeds of the proposed dance is meeting the situation in two ways: by asking employers to cooperate by taking on one man for every hundred now engaged, and by appealing directly for funds to alleviate immediate suffering...
...Possession relates the adventures of a Cantabridgian (Leslie Banks) who has squandered a good deal more money than he should have, gone about with low companions, and as a final piece of folly undertaken to sell an automobile on which he still owed payment. This commercial venture lands the young man in the workhouse for a spell and when he comes home, in Act I, instead of being invited to share the fatted calf, he is offered a small sum of money if he will forever absent himself from England...
...Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin's son Oliver, Cantabridgian, has grown a beard, turned Socialist...
...Vagabond is disillusioned. In fact, he's terribly fed up. Here he is, a denizen of these Cantabridgian shores for countless lunar episodes. And looking out tonight on the drizzling raindrops trickling slowly earthward, hindered only by the ecstatic effulgence of the glittering celestial pyrotechnics imbedded in the Moslem minaret effect down Lowell House way, he like the Preacher, is firmly convinced that All is Vanity (note influence of Bible exams.) Why should he, after all these chimerian days of unappreciated amateuristic guidance, waste any more time advertising interesting lectures by interesting professors...
...annual momentous interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Max Keezer, Cantabridgian wit, famed vendor and buyer of Harvardian habiliments, and unofficial plainclothes man of Harvard Square, brought several more of those first hand coups de maitre of a master wit into the limelight for posterity. Mr. Keezer, who claims to be even more expert in the matter of the philosophy of clothes than Carlyle himself, was pouring over a volume of "Sartor Resartus" when approached by the scribe in his Emporium yesterday. "Lasciate ognisperanza vio chentrate," said the original Mose of second hand clothes by way of greeting...