Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical was the largest Electoral College, which assembled in Albany, N. Y. Among the 47 electors who drew their $15 day's pay, their 10? a mile travel allowance and their free souvenir fountain pens (for signing oaths and official certifications) were, besides numerous ward bosses, four women, such political war horses as one-time Ambassador James W. Gerard, one-time Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, one-time Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen, Roosevelt Friend Frank C. Walker, such reigning Labor Union chiefs as Sidney Hillman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers), Joseph P. Ryan (International Longshoremen), Max Zaritsky (United Hatters, Cap & Millinery...
...very good reason at the time. After cruising around the square, and scraping acquaintance with the policeman of that village, the Harvard man suddenly decided he would die if he did not get a drink of water immediately. The car was stopped. He ran to a drinking fountain in the square, walked around it several times, stopped and stared. The paternal cop who had been observing the group for some time took him by the arm and led him slowly back to the car. "That ain't no drinking fountain, son" he said quietly. "That's a statue of Timothy...
...Harry Irving Shumway. This story opens with Pawnbroker Moe Epstein appraising a diamond for his friend Marcus. Says Moe: "A full quarter of a carat but the dirtiest diamond I ever see. Nine dollars is the very positive limit." Marcus offers to trade the diamond for a tray of fountain pens, then balks because the pens appear to be ''too yellow." Moe says, "So are canary birds, but who's afraid of canary birds? Well?" The trade completed, Marcus remarks that the weather is ''darker than one of these here epileptic days," drifts...
...Fountain pens, hats, pencils, gloves and serves are left in Memorial Hall by Yardlings who are embarrassed and confused by the novel experience of having to speak into a microphone...
Utterly dezed, students depart from examinations forgetting every imaginable possession, including watches, wallets, books, fountain pens, slide rules, clothes, and even food, according to the results of a recent investigation...