Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark, moonless midnight, ten midWest yokels armed with sticks surrounded a sidetracked private car. "Wake up, Hen! Wake up, Hen!" they shouted, then thwacked the car mightfully for half an hour. "Hey! Wake up, Hen! How's your brother Bill...
...Weld Golf Course is on South Street, about half a mile beyond the Brookline Country Club. The Club may be reached by taking a Chestnut Hill car from Park Street and transferring at Hammond Street, Brookline, to a bus. Busses run every 20 minutes between 7 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock at night, to the head of South Street, about 1,000 feet from the Club...
...drives through the Vatican gardens? on week days in a two-horsed carriage, on Sundays and holidays in a motor car. In the gardens is a clumsy copy of the French shrine of "Our Lady of Lourdes." When he reaches this shrine, he descends from his vehicle to pray at it for a few moments. Nearby are cages containing his two pets?an eagle and a green parrot. He prefers the parrot, to which he has taught a few phrases. He feeds them each a morsel and then passes on, daily, for a short walk by himself...
...startled to hear a savage war whoop; to see five urchins leap from five parked automobiles and scamper up an alley; to observe the five automobiles ?two on one side of the street, three on the other?start coasting down the hill. One nimble pedestrian leaped into a car coasting backwards, braked it, stopped two of the other cars with the bumper while other bystanders pushed from behind. The two cars facing downhill, bumping against the curb were delayed sufficiently for saviors to control them. Men bawling 'Thieves! Thieves! Stop there! Thieves!" chased after the urchins. None were caught...
...large number of speakers will be present, among whom are numbered: H. S. Colton President of Union Theological Seminary, A. P. Randolph, General Organizer, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, H. H. Tweedy, Professor of Homeletics in Yale Divinity School. H. P. Van Dusen, Instructor in Union Theological Seminary, D. R. Porer, Executive Secretary, Student Department Y. M. C. A. and Tissington Tatlow, Executive Secretary, British Student Movement...