Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in New Haven again, Eli captain Paul Lynch read the newspapers and then retorted: "I see that Shaunessy has been saying they'll wipe us off the field. That makes good locker-room bait." He has acquired a record 54 tickets to this afternoon's encounter "for my family and relatives;" and the Lynch tribe clearly does not expect to witness a slaughter...
...CRIMSON report of the first Noble Lecture has so thoroughly misrepresented a profound and perceptive message as to make the lecture appear ludicrous. Your reporter's utter lack of comprehension would indicate that the article's absurdity is unintentional. Had he merely taken the thirty seconds necessary to read the printed outline of the lecture provided for everyone in the audience, he could scarcely have produced the disjointed, self-contradictory article that we find on this morning's front page...
...long to find Harvard an unparalled source of humor and self-advancement in Ward 17. He had long admired the well-oiled machine of New York's Tammany Hall, which, in a modest way, his own Roxbury Tammany Club recreated. Partly because many of his constituents could not yet read a ballot, Curley made a more educational enterprise of his club. He invited speakers from outside the ward. Whatever the topic, he assured them all of an intelligent and sympathetic audience. Thus their dual function was to provide the ward with entertainment as well as enlightenment. Such was the speaker...
...murder, Genet's directions read...
...Longfellow, or when he was trapped in Filene's revolving door. And the time his date's heel caught and broke in a streetcar track he cheerfully carried her home. He enjoyed House food, loved breakfasts at 8:15, and even liked the Lowell House bells. He read Thurber, collected Charles Addams, and was content to sit alone at night listening to Dylan Thomas recordings and drinking black coffee from his electric percolator. Or would have been had he been able...