Word: corliss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corliss Lamont '24, flayed William Randolph Hearst and Hamilton Fish, Jr. '10, in his speech to a scattered few Friends of the Soviet Union assembled at Ford Hall last night. He remarked cryptically that "Ham Fish represented the Pilgrim Fathers, and would have served his country a great deal better if he had kept playing football instead of going into politics." He intimated that Hearst had cooperated with Hitler in attacking the Soviet Union...
...Kansas City William F. Corliss spread a blanket on a wagonload of potatoes, lay down on the blanket to sleep. As he snored, Farmer Corliss sank lower & lower in his wagon. When he woke, he lifted his head from the wagon's bottom. All his potatoes had been niched from under the snoring nose of William F. Corliss...
...Corliss Lament, second son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, who used to rate himself "a critical Communist sympathiser," told a Manhattan audience: "We will use violence if necessary to reach the Socialist goal." He predicted the U. S. would be under a Communist government in 25 years...
...That was what Philadelphia's Harbor Patrol was for. Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled. Rescuer Corliss toppled into the freezing Delaware. His 16 comrades made a double rescue...
Four miles back chugged the Blankenburg. While Patrolman Corliss dried himself in the Harbor Patrol's office, police statisticians computed salaries, fuel, wear & tear, concluded that the rescue had cost Philadelphia $250. Then they sat down to try. to figure out what to do with...