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Perhaps the authorities fear that the sentimental reaction that most hunger strikes engender among hoi polloi will harm their party were they to let Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LET THEM STARVE | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

...attached to all the miscellanea one receives at the beginning of the year relative to term bills and dining halls, has made a step of revolutionary significance in his campaign for More Mouths at Mem. By throwing open the gates of Harvard's gastronomic Elysium to the hoi polloi in petticoats--with the proviso, of course, that they find themselves suitable escorts--Mr. Meade has killed several birds with one stone; in fact, his name should be struck at once from the visiting list of the Audubon Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEM MILLENNIUM | 9/23/1924 | See Source »

...professionalism was associated with the organization. Anything that the Glee Club can do to make its undergraduate character more patent to the outside world, such as the new system of placing season tickets on sale, for the benefit of the college before they are offered to the hoi polloi of Boston, will aid materially in allaying such an impression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR AMATEURS ONLY | 10/31/1923 | See Source »

This great ensemble of Society and hoi polloi is a composite picture of the great crowd which three times visited Meadow Brook field to see the international military polo championship between the teams of the U.S. and Great Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Gallery | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

...Tragedy emptor caveat a Single Tax on Trade. Plato McMasters Menckenese, out-Donne by Shibboleth, Buncombe, and a bad negro. Aeolus had a breath. Sober, steadfast, and demure is the non sans droit o Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in of Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in musty covered tomes. Hoi Polloi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIVISIONAL TREMENS | 5/3/1922 | See Source »

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