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...have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all plays that the unbeaten Crusaders may fall dead, and that the Gil Fenerty may be discharged of yards as violently as hasty passes fir'd doth hurry from Peter Muldoon's fatal cannon...
...league asks the sympathy and support of all good citizens of Cambridge who are opposed to the multiplication of dram-shops in this city, and who desire to have our streets cleared of the drinking places which offer such fatal allurements to our young men. The league especially directs the attention of the people to the fact that the issue as presented at the approaching municipal election is one that does not admit evasion or neutrality. Every citizen is called to vote either upon the side of the liquor traffic or against...
...called the royal family "goldplated scroungers." The zealous antimonarchist explained his truce by marveling at the Queen Mother's ability to combine "a love of the countryside, a passion for horses and dogs, an enthusiasm for angling -and, so it is said, a wholesome taste for a wee dram of her native Scotland's national beverage-harmless pleasures which have never interfered with her sense of duty." More than that, those pleasures nourished the charm with which the Queen Mum humanized British royalty. "She came into the royal family from the outside," observes an old friend. "She brought...
...ESTABLISHMENT of the state of Israel 29 years ago today was the fulfillment of the 200-year-old dram of the Jewish people, "to be a free nation in our homeland." The celebration of Israel's independence is marred by continued strife in the Middle East. Although peace in that troubled region appears to be as remote a prospect as ever, some political signals have of late been encouraging. There can be no fonder prayer for Israel in its 30th year than one for a full, final and just peace among the opposing parties--the Arab sates, Israel...
...quotation from a Crimson story discussing the possible construction of the Kennedy Library (without museum) at the Boylston Street site, ...[The University is not totally out of the power scene: Hale Champion, financial vice-president, is not about to let the benefits of the project go down the dram benefits that include a new Kennedy Institute building, 2.2 acres of property and a 10 million Institute of Politics endowment...