Word: islanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Benjamin Franklin Rice Bassett '25 of Flushing. Long Island, has been elected to the post of treasurer of the Philips Brooks House Committee, it was learned yesterday. Bassett will succeed W.J. Bingham '16, who has held the position for the last four years...
Sibley Crosslett Smith '31, of Providence, Rhode Island, has been elected captain of the University fencing team, it was announced yesterday. Smith, who was one of the outstanding foilsmen on last years team, fills the position made vacant by the graduation of D. I. Modell '30, who completed his college course ahead of schedule...
...them lose you and don't let them rile you. I know-I was a full-fledged long-pants travelling salesman when I was thirteen." A few years ago he bought a summer house to spend the winter in at Pasadena but got bored there, heard Santa Catalina Island was for sale and bought the whole place...
...Just imagine ! No public Coney Island at this time of year. But I want to see the working class amusing themselves, so maybe I can visit some big sporting event...
Carry smashed a cigar-stand in Coney Island, acted in Elizabeth, N. J., in Hatchetation (originally Ten Nights in a Bar-room), lectured in a burlesque show in Springfield, Mass. Hearing President McKinley was shot, she lost favor by saying "I have no sympathy for this friend of the brewers." When President Roosevelt refused to receive her, she revealed that he was a cigaret-smoker, also that "Government, like dead fish, stinks worse at the head." In 1911 she died in Leavenworth Kan. "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition; She Hath Done What She Could" - so ran her epitaph...