Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fill Toro's place, Munro will probably use Chuck McVeagh, a sophomore who is playing his first soccer this fall. Otherwise the regular starting lineup will be unchanged...
...late Malcolm (Mal) H. Holmes '28, beloved conductor of the band, was pressed into service on a bass drum, although his musical experience had been previously limited to the violin. Leroy Anderson '29, then conductor of the group, and now a widely known composer and arranger, asked Mal to fill in on the drum. "But I don't know anything about the drums," the violinist protested. "You're a musician, aren't you? You can count can't you? Strap on the drum...
...Supreme Court." In Marion County, W. Va., Judge J. Harper Meredith had to issue an injunction to stop 53 white parents from threatening teachers on their way to the partially segregated Annabelle School. Such obstructionism, said the judge, "is a rebellion against the government . . . If necessary, I'll fill the jail until their feet are sticking out the windows...
...capacity for compromising genially with circumstances" that gave Melbourne his first principle&151:to let people alone. "If we are to have a prevailing religion," Melbourne told the world urbanely, "let us have one that is cool and indifferent." He opposed popular education because, he said, "You may fill a person's head with nonsense which may be impossible ever to get out again." When he became Prime Minister, he never made a political or religious appointment until he was obliged to, and was annoyed when death forced his hand. "Damn it! Another bishop dead!" he would sigh...
...anything, from the martial conquest of Canada to the marital conduct of Henry VIII ("Those women bothered him so," he told her). He was always so reassuring about everything. "If you have a bad habit," he said, "the best way to get out of it is to take your fill of it." Complicated matters, such as the monarchical history of Scotland, he summed up with fine brevity ("There are too many Jameses and all murdered. The Scottish are a dreadful people...