Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Item: Mr. Joe Blevitch of the class of '66, while returning early Saturday morning from a G. A. R. celebration, came into accidental contact with the iron gate of James Smith Hall. Sergeant O'Malley of the Cambridge Mounted Police, suspecting an attempt to crash the gate, fired three shots at him and left him for dead...
...Item: O. U. Apted '25 shamefully sought to bribe a Yard Cop to let him pass and was coldly and flatly refused. Mr. Apted was taken, after a slight fainting spell, to the Stillman Infirmary. He is still there...
...Item: Max Squeezer '08 very nearly attained success last Friday night by calling out the Fire Department to assist him in effecting an entrance through the upper reaches of George Smith Hall. Owing to a slight deficiency in the twenty-third rung of the fire ladder, Mr. Squeezer is now almost a total loss to his class...
...most interesting item in the account of Ontario's return to beer concerns Mr. Wayne B. Wheeler, the general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League. In the capacity of unofficial observer, Mr. Wheeler followed the hejira across the river from Detroit to Windsor, and behind the protective coloration of an unopened bottle, examined the drinkers narrowly to discover signs of incipient intoxication...
VARIETY?R chard Connell?Mint on, Balch ($2.00). In the columns of every U. S. newspaper, occupying the odd inch at the root of a divorce, or a box, maybe, between finance and mayhem, are items about nameless people who have become news because some extravagance in the comedy of their lives has made them pathetic or some vagary in their afflictions has made them funny. Richard Connell, with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected...