Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place to sleep is in most cases even more problematic than a means of transportation. It depends on a tardy correspondence and the plans of certain ever indeterminable parties of the second part. But finally out of the mass of delayed mail and frenzied telegrams there usually comes a solution and many are the improptu pallets of Harkness prepared in the name of the vague old days at preparatory school. And today, as lectures close, the game is on; may the best man come out cheapest...
...dormitories would be a mass of steady light, until finally the Harvard Band would form in front of University Hall. One by one those lights would go out. Now and again a student would be discovered who would rather have studied than have attended the rally, but the young man would be dragged out by the strong-arms to lend his unwilling voice to the parade that was to start...
...matter. The theory that the victorious institution deserves the goal posts of the opposition has the apparent support of a physically aggressive minority, but traditional precedent and established property rights do not support this view. Only within the present decade has vandalism followed victory. Even in the days of mass plays and bloody flying wedges, the material constituents of the game were left unscathed...
Died. Judge Thomas P. Riley, 53, of Maiden, Mass., onetime campaign manager for Woodrow Wilson, onetime defeated opponent of Calvin Coolidge for the Lieutenant-Governorship of Massachusetts; of pneumonia; in Cleveland, where he had been campaigning for Alfred E. Smith. It was Judge Riley, with Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, who secured the New England vote for Governor Smith in the Houston convention...
...Story. A little girl sat in the gallery at a Tetrazzini concert, her black pigtails rigid with excitement. The colossal colorature took her finale with a flourish, kissed her hands to her public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound. When she arrived home (Lawrence, Mass.) finally she made a very serious announcement, that she too would become a great singer. The grocer father took no notice. There were seven other Jacobos to feed. Why should little Clara get such notions ? But she kept her dreams, left school before she was 15, worked days in a textile...