Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patrolmen in a cruising car pulled up in front of "No. 6 Club, waited to be thwacked, were not disappointed. Spying a raised, unlighted window on the third floor, they sneaked upstairs, found Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter de Florez, an air gun modeled on a German Luger pistol, a supply of pellets twice the size of ordinary BB shot. At the police station whither he was taken on a charge of assault & battery, Sniper Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt was asked to identify himself, replied: "The other Roosevelt...
Among the 50 who turned out for the Varsity squad were all the regulars from last year's hard-hitting team, including James L. Kunen '36, 125-pounder, Peter B. Olney '37, 155-pounder, Captain William A. Smith '36, 175-pounder, Timothy J. Shea '36, 175-pounder, and Peter Ward '36, of the 135-pound class...
Selected from a list of 41 recommendations by proctors in the Yard, the membership of the new committee includes the following: Robert W. Anderson, John O. Bates, Oliver P. Bolton, Peter F. Cunningham. Robert T. Gannett, 2nd, J. Gorden Gilkey, Jr., Finlay H. Perry, Harvey M. Rose, and Edward H. Schoyer
...Elliott, who will play the part of Lockit, the Jailor, while other parts in the play will be portrayed as follows: Mr. Peachum by Alan J .Dimond '37; Lucy Lockit by Ralph Lazzaro '36; Captain Macheat by John Gochenour '36; Polly by Courtland Canby '36; Mrs. Peachum by Peter L. Scott '36; The Beggar by Leonard Hammer '38; Filch by Robert C. Cochrane, Jr. '38; Dianna Trapes by Robert E. Rogers '38; and William L. Batt '38 will play the part of "The Player...
Arctic Adventure. Peter Freuchen abandoned his career while still a medical student in Denmark, visited North Greenland in 1907, later established a trading post there. Arctic Adventure is principally his story of life with the natives, whose fantastic modesty and equally fantastic generosity delighted him. North Greenland Eskimos considered it impolite to mention their own names, always waited for someone else to identify them. When a host offered his guests food, he first apologized that it was not fit to eat. They believed that human beings could be trusted in all relationships except the sexual, consequently could not understand ideas...