Word: fo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...living room of the Union at which Assistant Dean L. S. Mayo '10 will preside. Dean C. N. Greenough '98 will speak, followed by J. W. D. Seymour '17. Secretary of the Alumni Association, F. V. Field '27 president of the CRIMSON, and C. D. Coady '27, captain fo the 1926 University football team...
Calithump In Woodbury, Conn., one William James Coutts was last week married to a Miss S. E. Skilton. This couple failed fo observe an oldtime Woodbury custom: they failed to provide free cigars to as many bummers as could elbow their way into the wedding reception. Therefore the small sons and nephews of these bummers (also the hoodlum daughters and nieces) assembled automobile horns, Klaxons, tin pans, fish horns, blank cartridges, a fire siren; gave the Coutts on two successive nights what the local press described as "an oldtime calithumping...
...14th and the 18th Amendments. A Main Street inter-racial dialog illuminates the difference: White Man: "Can you vote down here?" Negro: "Oh, yes, sah, I kin vote all right-dat is I kin vote if I kin git registered, but I has been trying to git registered fo' de pas' ten years, and I is always jes' too late or jes' too early." (Other States give the sceptre to the Nordics by making constitutional knowledge prerequisite to the ballot, in which case Negro political aspirants are asked what is meant by the four kinds...
...Reading, Governor-General of India, at present on leave in England, to the Reading† Chamber of Commerce: "On the day I was appointed Vicerory, I recalled the day when, after being two months moored at the quay in Calcutta awaiting a cargo of jute, I stood under the fo'c'sle head taking my small part in heaving away on the capstan...
...never occurred to me, toiling barefooted on the deck and moving among the hands of the fo'c'sle that the time might come when I would live in India as head of the administration, the representative of the King." Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of War, announced that despatches of the first Baron Amherst,* relating to America before, during and after the War of Independence, are to be made available to the public...