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Instead of being primarily a news gathering and disseminating organ, we have become first of all a depository for all sorts of riff--raff that knows no other harbor. Our desk drawers, our cubby-holes, our corners are cluttered up with eyeglasses, ladies, handbags, odd buttons and economic text-books. Our mail slots contain missives that no one else will claim...
...summary: WORCESTER HARVARD Ladroga, l.e. r.e., Emory Engler, Kashon, Golden, l.f. r.f., Dow, Hutchinson Kaliski, Rossi, l.g. r.g., Brookins, Raff Love, Lefarte, c. c., Gleason, Casales Seaver, Griffiths, r.g. l.g., Gunlach Sharkey, Carson, r.t. l.t., Gamman Souillere, Sullivan, r.e. l.e., Hellis Lefebvre, O'Reilly, q.b. q.b., Haley Janion, Ritchie, l.h.b. r.h.b., Tenney, Fink Curran, Goodman, Pauk, r.h.b. l.h.b., Locke Borden McGovern, Frigard, Gore, f.b. f.b., Litman, Swift...
...summary for the first Freshman game was: HARVARD ANDOVER Neer, Hollis, Kidder, l.e. r.e., O'Neil, Sophian Camman, Hitchinson, l.t. r.t., Peterson, Beinecke, Dean Grundlack, Debragona, l.g. r.g., Davis Gleason, Raff, Blagdon, c. c., Barr, Lewis Brookings, Anderson, r.g. l.g., Gardner Dow, Bray, r.t. l.t., Cahners, Royal Emery, Sherman, r.e. l.e., Brown Haley, Wood, Bowditch, q.b. q.b., Bird Locke, Clitman, Borden, l.h.b. r.h.b., Fitzhead Tonney, Morse, Bacon, r.h.b. Fuller, Swift, f.b. f.b., Graham, Cates...
...right, but I don't think we want any of her progeny in this community . . . not the kind of stuff that makes good citizens . . . shiftless . . . little moral stamina though she knows the difference between right and wrong." She said that the family is "low-brow," and "riff-raff. . . . Neighbors complain that the children are a nuisance with their marauding habits and the family is unspeakably dirty...
Maria Jeritza, buxom blonde Metropolitan Opera singer, instituted legal proceedings against Dr. Muller Guttenbrunn at Vienna because she thought that his book Riff Raff, which deals with a family continually embroiled in lawsuits, defamed her. When she first heard the book was being written she had the Viennese censor scrutinize it; when it was published she obtained legal authority for its confiscation. Her reason for believing the book was detrimental to her: the author is a brother-in-law of a maid whom she dismissed from her home in Vienna...