Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...placed in charge of a group of Harvard men who have already driven ambulances abroad. It is an excellent chance for any member of the University, whether he has an interest in the work of relief or not, to talk the matter over with men of experience and get an idea of the conditions under which the Ambulance Service does its work and of the pressing need for a still greater number of volunteers. Harvard's record so far is above reproach, but in order to maintain her present numerical superiority it is hoped that as many men as possible...
...Sunday will deliver his famous sermon, "Boose, or Get on the Water Wagon" again on Sunday at both services. Tickets for reserved seats at both are services on Sunday may be obtained at Phillips Brooks House...
...shoulders of its audience that we may be pardoned for the roundabout method. Those who go to such a play desire neither the delicacy of an English comedy, nor what we often have in a French one, a hinting at things not said. They want and they get a typical American force, a Kaleidoscopic series of incidents (the plot foreseen from the first) built around the ability of the leading character to be funny...
Billy Sunday will deliver his celebrated "booze" sermon, "Booze or Get on the Water Wagon," at both services in the Tabernacle on Sunday. The usual 150 tickets for each meeting are available at Phillips Brooks House. Members of the University may obtain these tickets free of charge as long as they last during today, tomorrow and Sunday morning. It is important to apply early since the tickets for the evening service are nearly all spoken...
...themselves, and the situations into which they are put are calculated to bring out their idiosyncrasies in the funniest manner. There is an alderman who "bosses" town and council and is in turn "bossed" by a Xantippian wife. There is a dapper young insurance agent who undertakes to get his friend out of trouble, and instead draws him into a mesh of complications. There is a group of aldermen typifying various stages of conservatism, churlishness and inebriation...