Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet buried in straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric street cars they made the trip from Marleave's Cafe in twenty five minutes and now they drop into the subway and are rushed under the river get a drink at a Boston blind pig and are back for their next class. After a couple of centuries of carrying water to the washbowls or splashing themselves at the college pump they have come by the luxury of individual bathrooms and running hot and cold water...
...Southborough, and when the wind is in the right quarter Third Formers, whose dormitory faces East, are made well aware of their late benefactor's sausage plant.* So that St. Mark's boys may be further pork-conscious, each year on Founder's Day suckling pig is served. Eight or ten times in the school year Headmaster Thayer leaves school to marry his alumni. Imposing is his record at socialite weddings, for loyal St. Mark's grooms will have no other cleric. Literate St. Marksmen remember his fondness for Robert Burns, whose poetry he reads...
Savage enemies have tarred Anido with a vile nickname, "The Epileptic Pig," but he is no porkier than Primo and considerably less epileptic than several members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...
...Casey '19 of Harvard also comes in for his share of the laurels in Mr. Trevor's Liberty article. "He was a greased pig in a broken field," is the way Mr. Trevor summarizes Casey's accomplishments...
...form, they soon got under way. The initial score followed a fifty yard parade down the field. A lateral from Putnam to Mays netted 20 yards. Charles Devens crashed through a weak spot in the left side of the scrub line for 15 more: yards and Putnam advanced the pig skin five. With beautiful interference mowing down potential tacklers. Mays dashed 15 yards for the score. Putnam's kick was good...