Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...delegations from New London and Saratoga were allowed the floor, New London speaking first. Mayor Waller in a few remarks introduced Judge Tibbets of the Citizens' Committee, who read a paper containing the propositions of the people of New London, which were of a most generous and satisfactory nature. The final action of Convention in favor of Saratoga was largely due to the fear that the river at New London would not be wide enough to give a straight course to all the contestants in the next regatta. Saratoga's propositions were presented by Mr Ames...
...implied by that exceedingly dubious expression, "the cold shoulder"; but the meaning cannot be extended so far as to include the Northern capital, which is the life of the South at the present time. The writer, if he is interested in facts, will also find that when the Mayor of New Orleans appealed to the North in behalf of the sufferers by a destructive flood in that locality, he received something besides "the cold shoulder...
...very close, owing to the superiority of the Oxford boat. If there had been less wind, the Cambridge crew would have won with far less effort; had the wind been stronger, the Oxford would have won. The refusal of the Oxford crew to accept the invitation of the Mayor of London receives the hearty approval of the paper, and leads it into a train of moralizing which is, to say the least, not strikingly original. It occurs to the writer that the crews are seriously injured by the inordinate praise that is given to them; and he pats J. Bull...
...from Boston represent the "Hub" as convulsed by a frightful earthquake of anarchy and disorder. It appears that on Friday, the 13th inst., the whole Sophomore Class of Harvard University, five thousand in number, marched, armed to the teeth, to the State House in Boston, and peremptorily ordered the Mayor to provide them with a dinner which should consist of not less than sixty-three, and not more than one hundred and seventy-five courses...
...unfortunate Mayor became the next object of attention to his ferocious captors; hoisting him by means of a derrick to the top of a lofty telegraph-pole, they compelled him to dance the "Boston Dip" and "New York Glide" along the wires, while singing "Gentle Spring," and whistling "The Flying Trapeze"; in addition to this he was compelled to play the Marseillaise Hymn, on a trombone, and execute Die Wacht am Rhein on a violin, at the same time...