Word: plankings
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...thoughtless pre-Lenten frolic on a Shrove Tuesday morning one hundred years ago in old New Orleans. Through the gumbo mud, the open ditches, along the plank sidewalks, under the street lanterns, paraded seven drunken students, back from their schools in France. As they whirled past the colonial guard station, a startled guardsman gave pursuit to the celebrators, chased them pell-mell down into the Old Quarter, by the Place D'Armes, past the St. Louis Cathedral, along streets lined with white houses embroidered with iron balconies...
...their fifth match of the season yesterday the University Fencing team vanquished Syracuse 11 to 2. The feature of the tourney was the brilliant foils work of C.B.H. Hollister '29, an unexperiencer Sophomore who vanguished Plank...
Engaged. Dr. Charles William Mayo, son of Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, famed surgeon; to Alyse Varney Plank of Collingdale...
...against "Ma" Ferguson that the blame should be laid for her freak administration, but rather against the people of Texas who supported her candidature. Mrs. Ferguson in seeking election was actuated by the very real desire to see her impeached husband vindicated. She made her personal grievance the chief plank in her platform. The sentiment of the Texas electorate was stirred, to the quick, and Mrs. Ferguson was elected. Her failure may be regarded as a rather salutary object lesson in the evils attendant upon unthinking balloting...
...harness shop was the centre of culture. The church was either used as a storehouse or ignored. School was prison. The lasting impressions Huck and Tom have of school are the whisperings of bigger boys about differences and relations between men and women. Boys lay under plank bridges to spy up at passing women. Their little brothers were often born just the other side of thin partitions between bedrooms and perhaps only a night or so after they had seen a sow have a litter. Tom remembers how the men of his village shot a horse thief into a pulp...