Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge, Mass., atop the solemn, Georgian bulk of Harvard Hall there is a cupola where, one morning long ago, early risers were astonished to behold a horse & buggy. In another Harvard Hall, banquet room of the Boston Harvard Club, there were assembled, one night last week, some 400 members of the Yale and Harvard Clubs of Boston, the Yalemen guests of the Harvardmen. Each alumni body had brought along its university president. All understood it to be the first meeting of its kind in history...
Said Slapped Swaffer: "I was surprised at my own calmness. ... I called the headwaiter and said, 'Throw this woman out.' " Said Slapper Foster: "I smacked him wholeheartedly on behalf of America. The dining room was crowded and I introduced myself by saying: 'You deliberately insulted me and I'm going to insult you in the only...
...will only learn to confine her vagrant affections to one man instead of to the Fifth Regiment of Horse Marines, or their equivalent in citizens of the realm. Creda consents, but we suspect that she had a cunning twinkle in her eye when she hurried from the consultation room...
...come out of the inky darkness. At hand a copious supply of cigarettes, wrist watches, fountain pens, and . . . but the list of endorsed merchandise is too long. Already the Vagabond could visualize the welcoming parade, the lecture dates at woman's clubs, his photograph in every room in Smith, Vassar and Wellesley, the fan mail from Radcliffe. And he could hear the sighs of debutantes make soft music in his ears. What a night of nights...
...Union will show the full details on its grid graph in the Living Room, beginning at 2.30 o'clock and admitting to Union members only. Spectators at the Harvard Freshman - Dartmouth Freshman game will get an opportunity to follow the clash in the middle west by the grid graph on Soldiers Field. Other places where the game will be picked out of the air from the WBZ broadcasting station and verbally distributed to the fans will be Leavitt and Peirce's and the lobby of the University Theatre...