Word: ink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remember our tale of the Russian bells in Lowell House at Harvard: how the Russian bellringer who was brought over to ring them fell into a mood, took to drinking ink, and had to be sent home, so that the bells have never been rung. Nobody so far has denied that the Russian bellman drank ink, but several people up there have written us indignantly that the bells do ring. It comes out that every Monday evening at six-thirty Lowell House holds High Table, which is a secret--and we should imagine, sad--sort of dinner, attended only...
...fellow of the American College of Surgeons, might have done the work. But old Dr. Kane likes to do things to himself. Eleven years ago he anesthetized himself and cut out his own appendix. Three years ago he began signing his operations by tattooing in India ink the Morse telegraph code (? -? ) which signifies...
...Ink, dust, chalk, clay, bad weather make teaching hard on clothes. (Use a whisk-broom, towel, shoebrush...
...ink of Lord Willingdon's signature to the stern ordinances was not dry for long before things began to happen. At Allahabad a procession of Nationalists was ordered by police to disperse. When they refused, police laid about them with their lathis. Back and forth the mob surged, crushing spectators in the narrow byways. Net result: two killed, one of them trampled to death; 18 Congress party leaders arrested; about 20 injured...
Accountants solemnly dipped their pens into red ink, balanced the score for gloomy 1931's last gloomy week. Reported were the following cold facts...