Word: hub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hub professionals work out just before the Crimson skaters and Coach Stubbs and Manager Ross, of the Bruins, arranged to send the two squads against each other for a half hour or so. Two years ago the University sextet scrimmaged the Chicago Blackhawks in a practice session. It is expected that the Bruins will use professional rules while the Crimson will of course play according to the amateur code...
...pretty niece's 1910 model car can be propelled very reasonably on kerosene, once it has been started on the more expensive gasoline. He has had his trousers turned three times. He shares his newspaper with a neighbor. And yet he is the possessor of one of the Hub's hidden fortunes. An exaggerated caricature? Of course, but very good reading...
...flurry of magazine slams on the nose has left Boston for the first time since the landing of the Pilgrims with a sadly shaken sense of its own civic virtue. While the other cities of the Republic smile with relief that the black spot has been presented to the Hub and not to them, the local city fathers run about distractedly hiding this and that issuing arrest warrants for authors, and crying libel before the public. It is a rather dreadful spectacle...