Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard and with wife, James Roosevelt settled in the Gushing home in Brookline, Mass. Still following the parental pattern, he registered at Boston University's Law school. Soon, however, he rebelled at living on an allowance from his family. James has the three ambitions common to most of the Roosevelts: 1) to get married, 2) to gain economic independence, 3) to become President of the U. S. Having attained the first he set out to get the second. Through the dean of the Law School he met a Boston insurance agent named Victor de Gerard-a onetime Cossack captain...
...undersigned are tired of being asked to vote time after time since our Freshman Union Committee days for the same conglomeration of quasi-representative names. Now as Seniors we are asked to swallow the final cup of hemlock, rendering us dead to our rights and privileges, the great mass of us merely so many votes to be mechanically considered by that mastermind, the nominating committee, the answer to the dreams of a power-crazed Stalin...
Toys (Chihuahuas, Pekingese, Pomeranians, etc.). The smallest and fanciest dogs are the beloved fancy of the bulkiest fanciers. Bulkiest of all at Westminster was John B. Royce of Brookline. Mass., whose tiny, brilliant red homebred Pekingese bitch, Kai Lo of Dah Lyn, pitter-pattered to victory...
Dwight Ellis' Maridor Kennels near Longmeadow, Mass, are a canine Waldorf-Astoria, with a lounge, an infirmary, a grooming room. Each dog has an individual concrete run and a little canvas-quilted cot. One of its walls carries a plaque with the names of the A. K. C. champions Dwight Ellis has raised. Judging by Daro's first showing, it will soon bear the name of DARO OF MARIDOR, first setter to win best in show at the Westminster, first American-bred to win since...
...raid on a trembling printer's shop, sat down on a type form of Free Belgium, almost carried a "proof" on the seat of his pants. Thrice police rounded up everyone they thought responsible for Free Belgium but never did they pluck out its heart. At one mass trial, the German policeman guarding the courtroom found the next issue pinned to his coattails. The bewildered Kaiser and the enraged Brussels commander regularly received copies...