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First names make a difference. Try joining a street gang if your name is Chauncey or a law firm if your parents named you Fifi...
...shillelagh instead of a night-stick. But if the Town of Southie has any laws concerning the public consumption of alcohol, they were not enforced by those men in blue wearing green carnations. Many of the reddest noses were found in places like Tom English's Cottage and Chauncey's pub, establishments packed to the rafters with old, freckle-faced ale-lovers and smiling lassies and laddies ordering up Heinekens because they like the color of the bottle. Though the curbs were strewn with cans and bottles by the end of the party, the fierce neighborhood of the Southie community...
...Charles Chauncey Stillman, Class of 1898, gave the University a $200,000 bequest in 1925 with the idea of founding the chair. According to the terms of the gift, the University was to choose each year "without limits of nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation," a lecturer on poetry. But this didn't mean poetry in the narrow sense of verse, meter and rhyme. The bequest explicitly states that "Poetry shall be interpreted in the broadest sense, including, together with Verse, all poetic expression in Language, Music, or the Fine Arts, under which term Architecture...
After the ceremony broke up, the previously unidentified men came out from behind their cloak of gray flannel. Of the ten surviving Holmes clerks, seven had made it to the ceremony: Chauncey Belknap, Thomas G. Corcoran, Lawrence Curtis, H. Chapman Rose, Robert W. Wales, and Alger Hiss and his brother Donald...
...personal favor to Samuel Chauncey, Secretary of Yale, the Committee decided to include a clarifying statement, "This book is written by a group of Yale students and is not an official university publication," Carr said...