Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pick up this dining place as a likely morsel for public fun. Its menu prices were broadcast: chicken okra soup 65?, baked lobster thermidor $2, lamb stew $1.70, royal squab en crapaudine, $2.75, baked potato 450, coffee 45?, demi tasse 50?. Jokesters insisted that the park air was still free and that the poor did not have to pay anything to watch the rich dine in their park. To point the issue even more, on the day the Casino opened, 93 ordinary citizens were haled to court, fined for eating their lunches on newspapers spread on the grass of their...
...eight people in the Banker's party (including a son, a daughter-in-law, grandchildren) were given free entry of the port because his trip had been on government business. But Banker Morgan, unaware of the honored privilege, had already declared his luggage and permitted a customs inspector to open three suitcases and examine their contents. Perhaps never had so great a banker appeared in so happy a light...
...same train with Mexican Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, head of the Mexican Hierarchy. The venerable prelate, because of violent trouble between Church and State, had left Mexico a year before. Now, as delegate of a Pope who not only is Vicar of Christ but also a free sovereign, he was returning to discuss with Mexico's President Portes Gil the possible soothing of those troubles. Probably the Archbishop and the Ambassador talked. Possibly the Ambassador, as a U. S. Statesman, said things which pleased the Archbishop about the U. S. attitude toward the Church-and-State problem. Further...
...also announced by the committee that Juniors, Sophomore, and Freshmen may receive marching tickets and free Yard tickets for Class Day at Leavitt and Peirce's beginning this morning...
Named the New Fraternity Hospital, it is of steel, theoretically quakeproof. It stands beside the park where 32,000 people perished during the earthquake. It cost $1,500,000. The frugal administrators still have two millions of U. S. money with which to endow it permanently as a free hospital, containing 248 beds, facilities for 600 outpatients...