Word: cart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petition reads: The undersigned are petitioning the H.A.A. not to give, but to grant the Harvard University Band every penny it needs to get to every game. (This does not mean by ex-cart either.) Any group that has done so much for the student morale and the University name certainly deserves no less recognition...
...second act of La Bohême, the cafe scene, where a cart filled with toys is dragged onstage, followed by laughing children. One of the kids was obviously more taken than the others by the singing of famed Metropolitan Basso Ezio Pinza, who was playing Colline. The admiration came naturally: it was his six-year-old daughter, Claudia...
Hoboken didn't like McFeely. He was tough, glum, nickel-pinching, semi-illiterate and vindictive. When he left the seat of a dump cart for politics, he cultivated Democratic Boss Paddy Griffin so obsequiously that he was nicknamed "Me Too Barney." But when Paddy got sick in 1925, McFeely had what he needed to grab Paddy's power: he controlled the police and fire departments and thus almost all Democratic campaign funds...
When he sings, he seems to introduce new notes into the scale. He heaves wash on to remote, high-slung clothes lines; he rushes on stage between the shafts of a cart and asks the audience if they have seen a horse go up the aisle. But there are dreary spells when the book is too much for him, and much drearier spells when he isn't even around...
Stagesweeper Hustie Finley doubled on the flute last night as Eliot House opened its Christmas festivities with an uproarious rendition of Ben Johnson's "Bartholemew Fair." Messrs. Alcorn, Kilty, and Spencer, and "Esquire" Martin, who "looked begotten on a cart at harvest time," led a cast of 28 under the direction of Maestro Allegretti...