Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modern civilization in its complicated forms is built around the press. A city without newspapers is like a room without air, and the larger the gathering in the room, the less can air be dispensed with. Yet last week New York City underwent a pressmen's strike and still breathes. And this is the story...
...trouble was not due to unwillingness on the part of the instructors to give the boys a good time by aiding them in the construction, for we have word to the contrary from one of the victims himself, who told his plaintive story to solicitous pressmen after the state constabulary had been summoned to restore order at the college. No, the real cause underlying the incident seems attributable only to the malevolent exhuberance of youth. Even the blushing bridegroom was not spared. A young and newly-wed professor was mercilessly paraded to the waters, and saved his dignity only...