Word: pere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last February, Nickel Plate assumed control of the Chesapeake & Ohio. In the late Winter and Spring, the heavy buying of Erie on the Stock Exchange occasioned much comment. Evidently much of it was for the Van Sweringens. The next road due to be acquired, the story goes, is the Pere Marquette, and then perhaps the Virginian and the Pittsburgh & West Virginia...
...picturing Lampy pere et fils conjures time to turn backward in its flight, and Mr. Noble '88, also breathes Etheu Fugaces in a seven stanza "praise of folly." Mr. McCord '21, and Mr. Alger '22, not yet having felt the sentimental stimulus of a class reunion, shape their sketches in the more or less familiar mold of modern college humor...
Camille Blanc, is the son of the famous Pere Blanc who, after a series of misfortunes in Germany, settled at Monte Carlo some 40 years ago and amassed a huge fortune. His son took over the management of the Casino at his death but it is stated that outside influences in the shape of Mme. Chinon, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Gregory Vigliano gradually divested him of his interest and his wealth. It is stated that Camille is today little better than a bankrupt...
...college activity to be supported. There was no cheering section and the seats in the Arena or at the old Ice-Pavilion were usually filled for the most part by individuals who came to watch with equal interest the professional fancy skater, the University hockey team play the Pere Marquettes and to whistle when the band played "Yoo-hoo" between periods...
...Total 14 33 Tennis Harvard 9 Clark 0 Harvard 4 Exeter 2 Harvard 5 Springfield 1 *Harvard 2 Oakley 6 Harvard 3 B. U. 1 *Harvard 1 Newton 4 Harvard 3 Holy Cross 3 Harvard 5 Huntington 0 Harvard 5 Yale 4 -- -- Total 37 21 Hockey *Harvard 0 Pere Marquette 4 *Harvard 3 Browne and Nichols 4 -- -- Total...