Word: licker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's most sensational fire broke out immediately after vacation that January when a three-alarm blaze completely destroyed the Soldiers Field Licker Building before a crowd of 4,500. The loss meant almost nothing to College athletes, however, since Clarence Dillon '05 had already offered the University a sum large enough to build a new and adequate building. Little attempt was made to determine the cause of the $125,000 fire after Dillon phoned the University the next day and urged that the new structure be started immediately...
Renzo's marriage is forestalled by a dastardly nobleman who, all of a licker for Lucia, intimidates the village priest and tries to kidnap the proud young beauty. A friendly Capuchin spirits her through all his snares to a distant convent. Meanwhile, heartbroken Renzo, breathing smoke and vengeance, flees to Milan. No sooner is he there than he is caught up in a bread riot and turned in to the police by an informer. Lucia, poor thing, falls into the power of an evil nun, who hands the girl over to the nun's own lover...