Word: nightshirters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these and other traditional anecdotes into an historical tale in which he divided the history of the University into four periods. The "Beer incident" (improper treatment of students) occurred during the early period. "President Dunster's period" included a fire that the University president fought while clad only in nightshirt...
...been heard from since Julia Marlowe played Juliet. The once-famed Duncan sisters were there. Fanny Ward, who made a living for years as "the 60-year-old flapper," was trying to look a youthful 76 in an outfit that combined a bridal gown and a Baby Snooks nightshirt...
...Vision. On last week's birthday Bolívar's disappointments were forgotten. It was his vision that still counted. The man who began life wealthy, who died at 47 and was laid out in a borrowed nightshirt, wrote an epigram to be carried like a torch: "The liberty of America is the hope of the universe...
...Last Week. Farmer Anderson woke just before 5 a.m. As he looked out over his unreaped acres he could see the wheat heads nodding to the cool morning. He called his wife, Zula, to get up and get breakfast going. He slipped out of his cotton nightshirt and into shorts, faded blue work shirt, grease-stained overalls and high, heavy shoes. On the back porch he sloshed water on his face, groped for the roller towel. In the next 15 minutes he had milked the cow and got Jack up. Then he went to the small bunkhouse and woke...
...name of notorious Wuppertal Police Chief Paul Kinkier, founding member of the Nazi Party. When U.S. soldiers caught up with him last week in an attic hideout at Nissmitz, he chose to die by taking poison in the best Wagnerian manner-but in a hurry and in a nightshirt. Cried his grief-stricken wife over his body: "My husband was a good man. I just couldn't control him." Then she admitted that her good man had shot twelve people...