Word: exits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Wright, president of the Harvard square Business Men's Association, has just filed a petition with the legislature calling for the replacement of the present rotunda by a new exit and entrance on the corner of Dunster street and Massachusetts avenue. This proposal is vigorously opposed by Representative Arthur F. Blanchard '04 of Cambridge, himself a member of the committee which will decide the matter. Mr. Blanchard is sponsor for the less expensive alternative of reducing the size of the station...
...immigrant girl from a Texas farm departs to the more entertaining surroundings of the St. Louis slums. A year or two of this and she is almost done. She forces an exit, and we next see her as a successful business woman in New York. On the eve of an advantageous marriage, she is overtaken by a lurking virus of her earlier obliquity, is driven to suicide...
Examples are legion. How many thousands of times has a comedian let a match burn until it singes his fingers? How many million people have laughed at his resulting agitation? In nearly every musical show ever produced one character or another, exit bound, will bump into the wings for comic effect. Hundreds of pairs of comedians have walked with increasing rapidity up and down the stage until one suddenly queries the other: "Who's winning...
...short Mr. O'Brien appears to have made a good-sized mountain out of a very small mole-hill. Members of the Harvard detachment are presumably strong enough to prevent the crowd from getting itself jammed in the exit and to keep spectators off the field. Aside from these exigencies the games at the Stadium have practically no need of policing...
...President Ebert. Dr. Gessler was described as an opportunist. He has been in three successive Cabinets, each of which has had a separate policy: Wirth Government, pledged to paying reparations; Cuno Government, pledged to maintaining passive resistance and refusing to pay reparations; Stresemann Government, pledged to seeking an exit from political, financial and economic depression. To each of these Governments the versatile Gessler has given his wholehearted support. He is considered an able orator and a strong man given more to suave diplomacy than to direct methods. His job now is to maintain order in Germany, to keep his weather...