Word: halloween
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Halloween celebration on the part of a certain firebug element among the undergraduates was the consensus of opinion as to the casus belli. The immediate result was a half hour traffic tieup, during which time the delayed motorists expressed impatience in the usual harmonious fashion...
...Halloween, 1926, mischievous Charles Vance Millar, rich, unmarried Canadian lawyer, silver mine owner and race track gambler, died in Toronto. When his will was examined it was found that he had left $500,000 to that Toronto mother who bore the most children within the next decade. To be counted, the offspring might be born alive or dead, legitimate or illegitimate. With Oct. 31 just six weeks away, the Toronto baby derby last week entered the home stretch. Five fecund women were running almost neck & neck. Of these, three would be out of the money if anyone bettered their record...
...hand, an estimated 500,000 student strikers last week observed the third Peace Day. While the Emergency Peace Committee was imparting to the occasion a religious flavor (see p. 32), the student Peace Day gave signs of turning into a full-sized and characteristically noisy national institution, like Halloween...
...children inside the Fair at the time it was by no means the end. When officials tried to close the gates a loud fun-crazy crowd engulfed 200 police reserves, trampled down fences, pushed on to fresh destructions. It was not only Last Night at the Fair but also Halloween; together they offered a fine excuse for a fierce form of celebration. Mobs swept up & down the Street of Villages, snatching everything in sight. In the shoving, pushing, screaming press people fainted by the score. Masked as witches, a group of gay hoodlums nearly demolished the Italian Village where Sally...
...Sophomore Class of the Sargent School of Boston University requests the presence of the Sophomore class of Harvard University at their Sophomore Show and Halloween Dance to be held at the Sargent School on Saturday evening, October the twenty-seventh at eight o'clock...