Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elmer?" of the 1880s. One account: Billy Patterson was a rich Baltimorean who was struck by an unknown party in a border-town free-for-all in Georgia, in 1783. He "inquired so hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...
Another account: Billy Patterson was a beloved Manhattan barkeep of the 1880s, who was felled one night as he left the Star and Garter's side door, by an unknown dastard with a blackjack...
Although not substantiated by University officials, it was authoritatively learned by the CRIMSON last night that Francis Keppel '38 will take next fall the post of assistant dean in charge of Freshmen, left vacant by the resignation of E. Francis Bowditch...
Formerly intended for religious discussion groups, a large left has been converted into a large study, where most of the college's organ music, valuable original manuscripts, and photo-stats of manuscripts will be housed...
...unscrupulous dictators. French rulers, said Morris, had so corrupted the French masses that they "have no Religion but their Priests, no Law but their Superiors, no Moral but their Interest." Gouverneur Morris appears, in short, as a well-meaning liberal, preaching moderation to people who, on the Right and Left alike, wanted none of it. As for his scheme to smuggle Louis XVI to the U. S., even Tom Paine joined him in that humane intrigue...