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...Cutts '28 appears to be Coach F. G. Mitchell's choice to hurl for Harvard tibs afternoon, although there is a possibility that Willard Howard '28 may be on the mound when the game starts. According to present plans, however, Howard will pitch against Maine on Thursday, while J. N. Barbee '28 will take his turn at the rubber against Colgate at the end of the week...
...restlessness broke out in Ohio, too. At St. Clairsville, police hunted for "Red Head Carrie" Cressi, aged 18, for leading a crew of older termagants to hurl bricks at the Crabapple Mine, injuring Superintendent Tom Willis. But "Red Head Carrie" had fled home to Detroit. A mob of 200 unionists in the Flower Mine district (also near St. Clairsville) rambled down the highway flinging chunks of rock into non-union windows. Out of one window a shotgun blurted answer. Police locked up the shooter for safekeeping. Governor Donahey of Ohio sent word: "The law must be obeyed. If violence continues...
...College de France, Paris, students protested violently against the views of Jules Loth, lecturer on anthropology. They felt urged to hurl twelve stench bombs into his lecture room. They did so. M. Loth's lectures were suspended...
...able-bodied Irish matrons, Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Callahan, hurl garbled Hibernian-English at each other over a backyard fence. They grab at each other's hair, throw pots and pans. They swat their children, who make love in cow-like fashion and threaten to entangle the two families in matrimonial alliances. In the end, of course, the children do get married...
...greatly influenced the jury and that "under ordinary circumstances" the case never would have been prosecuted. These latter remarks presumably referred to the fact that in 1919-20 the U. S. nation engaged in a widespread Radical-hunt, and "Bolsheviki" became a common epithet for one small boy to hurl at another...