Word: engels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less physical atmosphere of Harvard Square and its neighborhood has changed little in the past three or four year. Blind Dan still sells his papers near the subway station; Herr Engel continues to bestride the Square; Eddie Morris is still the acrobatic, iron-voiced announcer at sporting events; Dennis Enright has not changed from the brown color which has always fentured his attire; and Mike continues to predict victories over Crimson fees
Laying the blame for the resent assault on him in Charles' Lunch to a band of gangsters headed by an archbully, Herr Engel in a letter to the CRIMSON appeals to the forces of law and order to stop the plot before it is carried out. In an unpublishable appendix to the letter, Herr Engel supports his case with an account of the gang's conversation which contains, among other things, the challenge to Herr Engel, which led up to the assault...
...bodies and save the expense of the whole police machinery. Three times in a public place (restaurants) attacked and abused by vile language is making a rendezvous for crime, when I hear the arch-bully exclaim that no one would dare to report him to the police, but myself (Engel). Yes, I am different and I have repeatedly proven it. I do report a bully. I smash his head in defense of myself and if he is a desperado or a madman, I shall kill him without the slightest remorse. Most cordially yours...
Shortly after eight o'clock, Herr Engel, carrying his food from the counter, was attacked by the truck-driver--one of the strongest men in Cambridge, it is said, and one of the most bibulous who punched Herr Engel in the left cheek. Herr Engel, resentful, struck his assailant with his cane. Both men picked up chairs but Herr Engel was able to parry only three of the legs, receiving from the fourth a gash across the eye. Herr Engel, it appears, threw the truck-driver under the table and although his assailent was withdrawn from the restaurant without further...
...this started during the War when some of Herr Engel's cabbages that he was raising for the government were thrown at him. The case was brought into court but nothing was done. The truck-driver, it seems, has borne the grudge and having read in the CRIMSON about Herr Engel's proposed trip to Germany, resolved that his enemy should not escape unseathed...