Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country in which they temporarily reside can curse in Italian without offending the most delicate native sense. It has been often demonstrated that the most musical word in the English language to foreigners is "cellar-door." In the same way, the hasty remarks of Italian wheelbarrow pushers and ditch-diggers smite the ear only as poetical rhapsodies in a foreign tongue...
...Dixon '25 will oppose C. C. Peabody today at the B. A. A. courts at 4.30 o'clock in the semi-final round of the State squash tournament. This will be the fifth meeting of the two players, ditch having won twice...
Yale, on the other hand, has come along slowly. It has kept out of the defeated column only by last ditch fighting and some fortunate breaks. A constant improvement has been shown, however, and there is everything in favor of the Elis' playing the game of their lives today. They will need to if they hope...
...sustained a point of order of the learned senior Senator Lodge from Massachusetts and had, thereby, as Mr. Heflin put it, "participated in a rape of the rules of the United States Senate." But nobody cared greatly; even the Republicans were inclined to the opinion that they would "ditch this dumb Vice President" when they came to making up their ticket...
...death, under identical circumstances, of one or more of those who had followed the body of the woman. People in the .section of the city-a poor one-where the deaths were occurring began to whisper a word whose horror, long laid in the earth, once screamed from every ditch, devastating cities. "Plague," they said. Health authorities acted. The Mexican Quarter was tightly quarantined. None were allowed passage through its streets, even in automobiles. None were allowed egress from the district except a few industrial workers with special permits. Food was delivered but no garbage or milk containers taken...