Word: pluto
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This communication was handed in to the CRIMSON yesterday by a geunine Memorial Hall waiter, who seemed in mortal fear that his head would be removed by the Pluto of the lower regions, if his identity was discovered. We assured him that he would be safe as far as our office was concerned, and unless his individual literary style betrays him, he may voice his wrongs to the world as often as he pleases, undetected. - ED. CRIMSON...
...abounded with anachronisms and absurdities which made it all the more amusing. Romulus and Remus are in love with Proserpina; they fight a duel about her, and Remus is killed; Romulus descends to Hades to recover his brother's soul, and finds Proserpina there on the same errand; Pluto falls in love with Proserpina and refuses to let her return to earth; the difficulty of providing a bridal trousseau is solved by the property manager, and the play ends in a blaze of red fire and a wild dance of demons, and condemned souls. Following is the cast: Romulus...
...Pluto's scrubby beard and all the stars of Olympus and the Boylston," shouted Epaminondas, "ye may be asy, me byes, 't is four aces I have! Whoop! whirra! "???! Well, I should cough!" And the general smiled a smile more dreadful than his own dreadful frown, and added that it reminded him strongly of Leuctra...