Word: corridors
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Fortunately, however, the University still contains a small minority dedicated to the 'rag'--the student practical joke. In the past six years, 'raggers' have tethered a goat on Merton Chapel roof, driven an Austin down a Botany Department corridor, rolled a barrel into a graduate student maternity ward at 2 a.m. (the authorities gave the culprit a second chance and he was expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after...
Front entrance to Norfolk, Mass Prison is a long, concrete corridor leading into a small chamber that can be filled in two seconds with enough gas to knock a man unconscious. The exit from the chamber opens directly into the prison's inner yard, where rows of iron grey dormitories and brick administrative buildings line a large rectangular plot surrounded by a fifteen foot stone wall...
...rooms, the corridor, and $130 worth of beverages were used to accommodate the estimated 300 students, tutors, and interested though not necessarily sober observers in attendance--over half of whom were dressed in costumes representing a fat slice of historical mankind from Edward the Black Prince to a churl...
...Star Reporter Betty Beale was so startled that she wrote a story next day listing all the shattered precedents. Among them: newsmen were allowed to mingle with guests, hors d'oeuvres were fancier than ever, guests were welcomed as soon as they arrived instead of waiting in a corridor, four abreast, for a formal presidential handshake. Even routine ceremony had a new style. Jacqueline Kennedy opened the Heart Fund drive by posing with twin beneficiaries of heart surgery, Donna and Debbie Horst, 6. When the pictures were over, she gave each one a tiny gold heart charm with...
...back with a perfect alibi before the warden knows he is gone. But just before he can put his plan into effect, the friendly old turnkey is replaced by Sergeant Sidney ("Sour") Crout, who is notoriously "the most wickid screw what ever crep' down a prison corridor." Best scene occurs in a prison quarry, where an "accidental" blast blows Sergeant Crout to comical tatters and leaves him staring at the audience with an expression like the can't-win cat in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Best line belongs to Sellers. "Four years we've been gaoin...