Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawrence Lader '41 the undergraduate family consists of a hundred student volunteers who each tutor a graduate from some high school who because of his financial situation is unable to attend college. Once or twice a week the student meets the volunteer instructor in the latter's college room, shares his notes and books and occasionally attends lectures with...
While the students have applied for a wide variety of jobs, most of them at present are seeking work which will earn room or board or both. For a room, the students mind furnaces, cut lawns, wash windows, and do other chores taking an hour a day; for board they wash dishes or wait on table...
...have applied for work in accounting, photography, line-typing, landscaping, playwriting, paint spraying, carpentry, coaching, reporting, operating a switchboard, plumbing, sign painting, window dressing, masonry, and refrigerator repairing. Seventy-six have applied for odd-job chore work, 59 for waiting on table, 42 for chauffeuring, 29 for room-for-service jobs, 26 for retail sales work, 25 for typing, three for reading, and two for work as subjects in psychology experiments...
...after the Times rebuked its crack London reporter, Frederick Birchall and some 30 other correspondents gathered in the big, cream-walled conference room on the first floor of the Ministry to recite their grievances. Director General Eric Drummond Lord Perth (who later in the week became Advisor on Foreign Publicity and was succeeded by Sir Findlater Stewart) and his Chief Censor. Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, heard them patiently, anxious to satisfy the men on whose work depends the U. S. public's opinion of Britain's war. They agreed to appoint more censors, keep them on duty...
...wife found on Rimbaud's pillow "little insects which she had never seen before," her husband laughed. Explained Verlaine: Rimbaud keeps "such parasites in his hair to have them handy to throw on the priests" he passes. But it became necessary for Verlaine to rent a separate room for Rimbaud. There the two poets somewhat absinthe-mindedly achieved that "long et raisonné dérèglement de tons les sens" (long and calculated derangement of all the senses) which was Rimbaud's purpose in debauchery...