Word: elysian
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...Elysian Field. The blissfully named Elysian Park Street Railway Co. was typical. Organized to sell lots in then suburban Elysian Park, the company had one horse-drawn car. Once the only driver said: "The owners furnished the horse and I the feed. My pay was $4 a week and all I took in ... about 10? a day. I had a banjo and was learning to play. I would start from one end of the line and busy myself with my banjo. The horse stopped whenever he found good grazing...
...presidential candidate, but you are just a Childe Harolde to me. Just how old does one get in thirty-eight years, anyway? At the risk of being an un-American, defeatist influence, I don't want faith restored to me. You just stay over in the Elysian fields where you belong, and let me wallow my poor benighted way through Hell. Yours very cordially, Pro Bono Publico...
...climate. Visitors from the East don't show much interest in Yosemite, the Redwoods or the orange groves, but they fall all over themselves to see evidences of our human phenomena-such as the folks at Aimee's Angelus Temple and on Hollywood Boulevard, the Iowans at Elysian Park, and supporters of the "$30-every-Thursday." In short, the pinheads have at last eclipsed the halfdomes on the California scene...
While Gold Is Where Yo Find It was being edited & cut, a hillside in Los Angeles' Elysian Park started shifting, tumbled boulders down on a highway beneath. To the scene rushed Warner cameramen with Technicolor equipment, floodlights for an all-night watch. Script writers got right to work on a landslide sequence to be added to the film. But the hill refused to budge for the cameramen. Last week Nature was more cooperative. As the Warner Bros, prepared to present their film simultaneously in 200 theatres throughout the U. S., flood waters swept out over the Sacramento Valley, inundated...
What provisions, then, should be taken to care for the Freshmen who not reach the Elysian fields of the Houses? It seems eminently clear, and the Student Council report has pointed out, that n one should be denied at least one year in the Houses, no matter where he comes from, what his social connections, and how high or how low his scholastic standing. This principle should be the guide of the University in assigning rooms to present and future upper-classes...