Word: pining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students who are golfers will be interested in the news that since the close of the college year in June, the City of Cambridge has opened a new municipal golf course at Fresh Pond. This course which is a pine-hole one is within the city limits and can be reached from Harvard Square within a few minutes. Although non-residents are charged a higher feed we are informed by the Park Department of Cambridge that students will be classed as residents which means a green fee of $.50 for nine holes, or $.75 for eighteen holes. In addition there...
Near Bethany, La., Grafton Page, 30-year-old Negro, was stripped naked. His hands were bound to a bough above his head. He was beaten to death with pine knots. Such was his punishment for "molesting" 22-year-old Blanche Abram. While drunk he had forced her into his automobile, driven furiously, almost hit a truck. careened into a ditch, knocking the girl unconscious. Such were the facts, reported last week by officers of Caddo Parish, of a curious lynching-curious because not only Grafton Page but also Blanche Abram and all members of the lynching bee were Negroes...
...resurrection. Authorities looked at the body, decided it had better be buried while there was something still left to bury. Next day in overalls and gingham the "Immortals," who support themselves by farming, chanted a requiem as Brother Isaiah was lowered into the earth. He lay in a plain pine box, his head pointed toward the north, his long, white whiskers flowing over his long, white robe. His followers plowed and harrowed the earth above him, went away to await his second coming...
...Sopwith expect to cross the Atlantic this month, beat her trial horse, W. L Stephenson's Velsheda, twice. Unlike the Shamrocks which were all green, Endeavor is a pale hydrangea blue. She is built entirely of steel except for a mahogany rudder, silver-spruce boom and pine decks...
...climbed up on the stump of a pine-tree with one of those monster-radishes in one hand and a lump of hard soldiers' bread in the other, and joked, between mouthfuls...