Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cedar chest (and the files of the Herald), when the last shoddy slippers have danced their last measure to the last strains of Ruby Newman's orchestra, when the last Harvard Freshman has sauntered off to study at last for finals, then she will see the wisdom and herself pack up her Paulsen, and her Robinson, and her Schopenhauer and return to Radcliffe...
...Last week he emerged from retirement to make his campaign contribution in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.† His appearance was staged as a major party event. The entire New York State Republican ticket was on hand. G. O. Partisans counted on the magic of his name to pack the Garden and its environs with 50,000 persons. When only about 15,000 actually attended, ushers were sent out upon the streets to coax passers-by in to fill empty seats. The only living ex-President got a two-minute ovation which he cut short by holding...
...wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure, he set off in 1893 on the three-year trip he described later in Farthest North. Leaving the From frozen solidly into the drifting ice pack, Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen headed north with dog sleds and kayaks to see how far they could get. Though they did not reach the Pole, they went 320 kilometers farther north than anyone else had been. Then they had to camp out for the rest of the winter. They...
...staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles. Men in linen dusters carried red fireballs aloft. Bands blared, whistles shrieked, sidewalk crowds roared. It took Governor Roosevelt, in a huge white touring car, 45 minutes to edge his way seven blocks through the human pack to his hotel. Not for years had Chicago seen such a turnout, even under Big Bill Thompson...
...large and motley horde of movie-goers who follow with enthusiasm the irrepressible clowning of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy can get a plethora of it by trekking to the State Theatre. The two comedians are currently featured in "Pack Up Your Troubles," a five reel slapstick comedy. This picture, the second full length film which they have appeared in, takes them for the usual round of bad breaks, during the course of which Laurel's features continue to grow amazingly dumber and dumber...