Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eyes of the peddler students are easy marks. On the whole they are right...
...Peddler's Pack" is vivid, imaginative, individual, quaint--much the best thing in the number, both in conception and in execution. "An Aesthete's Nightmare" proves how rare the extreme aesthete type is in our midst--Mr. Dos Passos would never have to resort to such obvious and wholesome objects of art as the Venus de Milo, a Buddha, and Parrish's "Pirate Ship" if he had ever seen the animal in the wild state in his native lair--in Oxford, for instance...
...cases that are never lost sight of by Yard police until the blame is fin ally and irrevocably fixed. Another case against which there is a general warning is that of a negro who is peddling cigars about the rooms. The cigars, it turns out, are consistently smuggled. The peddler of the articles will be taken into custody as soon as his whereabouts is reported and he is caught in the act. It is on such pretences as this that men enter the dormitories, as is illustrated by every-day instances of solicitors, book agents, and ticket-sellers, and peddlers...
...abdomen. Roachford immediately ran out of the Hall, pursued by Jones, a waiter, and Gale, who is employed in the office. Gale and Jones lost track of Roachford on Harvard street, but falling in with Policemen Baggane and Hezlett, of the First Station, they jumped into a passing peddler's wagon and drove rapidly toward the City Hall. At Dana street the wagon overtook Roachford, the police jumping out and making the capture. Roachford was taken to the police station. Hughes is now in the Cambridge Hospital in a very serious condition...