Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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On Christmas Eve, 1927, Marshall Ratliff disguised himself as Santa Claus and, with three companions, robbed a bank at Cisco, Tex., killed two policemen. Captured and condemned to death, Robber Ratliff was returned to the county jail at Eastland, Tex., to undergo a sanity test. Eastlanders grumbled at the law...
To the world at large, the headmasters of three famed New England private schools are Dr. Samuel Smith Drury (St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands...
All candidates will be asked to report between then and Christmas vacation, in order to get in condition for the coming events. The Knights of Columbus meet will be the first of the winter season, about three weeks after the vacation, in the Boston Garden on January 25. During the...
Another Thanksgiving having become part of an undigested past, everybody settles down to wait for Christmas vacation. The significance of the day has unfortunately been rather widely dissipated in gourmandizing and various other pleasant pursuits. Turkey has assumed the role of the main feature of the day with numerous other...
In college Thanksgiving seems to mean little more than a chance to make up work or sleep. It is the last break before Christmas vacation and the reading period, a sort of preliminary breathing time. Every one is thankful for the relief it offers as a vacation, but thought on...