Word: sackful
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...sack of apples arrived and men left off work to eat them, lounging and talking...
...crude, it was shocking bad form, but it did get results. The patrons swung around in their chairs, stared in stupefaction as the bandit ordered the cashier to fill a paper sack he threw toward her. Then, clutching the sack, containing $285, he scuttled out the door. It was the first time in all its 47 years, the management announced, that the hotel had suffered the indignity of a robbery. Such a moment could not go unrecorded. The Vancouver Sun, which occasionally yields to the temptation to tweak Victoria's stiff upper lip, assigned star Cartoonist Len Norris...
Former CRIMSON editor John Sack '51, in a story titled "Ivy Social Pastimes," sets down the tenets of "unwonkyism" and how he hopes he attained it during his years in the College. He recalls the fall Saturday afternoons at the Stadium when "the people around me bestirred themselves to yell with emotion...
...Sack then turns his attention to the early season Radcliffe social, the jollyup, which "brings together fifty or so girls and upwards of two hundred stage for an evening of pure Dantean borror...
...hammering in the little towns advertised Sunday's approach for a week in advance. Carloads of sawdust provided an acoustical baffle and a path for sinners to walk forward. On a stage high above the audience, flanked by brass instruments and brass-throated singers, Billy Sunday's sack suit, white waistcoat, wing collar and spats were put through some of the strangest performances ever enacted in the name of religion. The show awed even the reporters, who sat below the stage in a fine rain of perspiration from the evangelist's flailing arms and contorted brow...