Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Student Council member believes that the refusal of advertisements in student publications would fatally would the existing tutoring bureaus...
...opus, The Old Maid and the Thief, was a farcical satire on feminine foibles. Its plot: a very pleasant, honest tramp so ingratiates himself with an old maid and her maidservant that they make him a permanent guest, even stealing liquor from a neighboring store (the heroine, a member of the town's temperance league, can't buy it publicly) to keep him contented. News that a notorious criminal, of similar description, has just escaped from a neighboring jail disturbs the old maid somewhat, but she reflects that "it is better to be killed by a man than...
Stocky, ruddy, blond George Rea's first act as president of the Curb was to go down on the floor and shake hands with every member there. His grin and his grip augured well for his regime. "The only question on Rea," wrote the Journal-American's Financial Columnist Leslie Gould, "is why would he leave Honolulu . . . when almost anyone downtown would swap a Stock Exchange seat for a good palm tree...
...money and a-givin' WP and A jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till I get out'n dis shape...
Referring to the provision in the Council's constitution that the Council must include at least one man who is a non-House resident, but not a commuter, the petition asked that "if no dormitory member is elected to the Council in the coming election, such a member be appointed...