Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shifting tides of social acceptance were charted in the 1950 edition of Manhattan's Bowery Social Register (also known as The Almanac de Skid Row), blue book of U.S. hoboes. Blue-penciled out this year by Bowery News Editor Harry Baronian: Crown Prince Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a hobo; Frisco John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer...
...famed Harbor Light corps in Chicago: "Overcoming drunkenness is a matter of prayer from beginning to end. God is the deciding factor. The job is too overwhelming to be done by human means alone." With evangelism goes fellowship. Misery can find company in decent surroundings along Skid Row...
...row that followed was long and bitter ("Must a gentleman eat with a mucker?" cried the clubmen). In the end, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and the rest of the clubs continued to flourish for the benefit of juniors and seniors who as sophomores had been lucky enough to get elected...
Last week, the old row broke out anew. With the annual elections still more than a month away, 605 out of 788 sophomores signed a petition declaring that they would join no club at all unless bids were extended to every student seeking election. It was true, said the sophomores, that the 17 clubs now took in 87% of those who wished to belong, but it should...
...Cleveland this week the two top teams of the All-America Conference met for the league's last game. On a muddy, slippery field the Cleveland Browns defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 21 to 7, to win the league championship for the fourth year in a row...