Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they enjoy themselves so intensely. Certainly there is a contagious thrill to newspaper work quite as keen on the Crimson as on any metropolitan. daily. One has the run of seeing events all meetings people at fret traid or, as Philip Gibbs has expressed it, of sitting in a front seat at the peep show of life...
...Cartwright 2F.S. was the next to mount the stand, stating that he had gone into the Traymore after the show, and had been arrested in front of the restaurant when he had come out, denying that he had been making outeries or interfering with the officers. This testimony was supported by Asaph Churchill '28 and B.E. Levy '28. Samuel Westheimer '28 also testified that he had been arrested in front of the Traymore, although he had been making no disturbance. H.W. Hirsch 3L, and F.H. Freed '28 supported Westheimer's testimony...
...front of the butcher shop, Marie Drazdorf, maid-of-all-work, paid not the slightest heed to the growing procession. She must get the shutters hung up and the doorstep scrubbed before suppertime. Then there would be coals to carry, and the dishes, the pots, the. . . Ach! Will busybodies never let a woman finish her work? What would this fat burgomaster be looking at her for? "Good evening, Mr. Burgomaster." ... Eh ? He was bowing? The burgomaster bowing at Marie Drazdorf, the butcher's drudge girl? At Marie Drazdorf, with a five-year-old son and a man too poor...
This gypsum gink or hillside hoopus?whatever its name might be?had soft black fur girdled with white, and white cuffs above its paws. Its front paws resembled human hands, Mr Miller said, except that the hairy black fingers reminded him of a tarantula. He could span the animal's neck with his thumb and forefinger, though it stood 30 inches high and weighed 20 pounds. The hind paws were sharply clawed, for climbing and scratching. A sharp-pointed face peered out from a fringe of mustache, like a monkey's. The nose was hard, smooth, rubbery. With its sharp...
...phenomenon of two and two equaling four is dull dumplings to young minds. You have to bring two and two to life somehow if you want to hear four discussed at recess. . . . Last fortnight Teacher Gaylord invited some fathers and mothers to her classroom, in the morning. In front seats, grinning, sat a picked team of 15, her best mathematicians from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Teacher Gaylord singled out a father with more apparent bounce than the rest and had him act as captain of another team?composed entirely of fathers, who straightway fell to talking about slide...