Word: mel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd protested and the official's bodyguard attempted to disperse them. In the melée which followed the frog was dropped, the jar shattered, frog ground to jelly. Infuriated, the mob attempted to rush the guard, belaboring them with fists, sticks and feet. The military official, immobile of face, ordered his men to fire. Eight Chinese fell dead, one a priest...
...ecstatic delight and lumbered off full speed after the first. The ball gave a dying flop and settled in a rut. The first bear fell over it and the second bear fell over the first. Then began a battle for the ball which was "torn to shreds" in the mel...
...that he is a professor of mathematics, a critic of the Einstein theory. He dropped the big book with a bang and with 20 of his Socialist colleagues he dashed across the Chambre to storm the Royalist benches. Six uniformed sergeants-at-arms rushed forward to stop the threatened melée; one seized M. Painlevé around the waist, but it was useless; they were outnumbered. Blows, kicks, curses, cuffs rained in profusion...
...aristocracy. The modern world has known, generally speaking, two types of aristocracy: the English, based on obligation with honor; the French (of Louis XV), based on privilege without obligation. Which tradition is being accepted by rich Americans'? The answer will come from the sons of Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Stotesburys, Armours, Mel-Ions, Bakers, Biddies, Fords, who can, if they like, win Grand Nationals. This is the purport of considerable serious comment across the water...
...untimely death of Mel Dennis has left those who knew him well in a state of complete bewilderment. Particularly is this true of the editors of the CRIMSON, who had known his reliability and good fellowship so long, that they had never conceived what life without him would be. Within the memory of the oldest editor there has been no member of the board who has given himself more completely to the service of the paper, his chief interest in Harvard. We respected and admired him as a fellow-worker; we cherished him as a friend. To his family...