Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be introduced by Mrs. G. P. Baker, acting Dean of Radcliffe. This is an extra lecture that has been added to the regular Monday afternoon talks, and was planned particularly for seniors who are taking divisionals in English this spring. Reserved seats for the lecture are now on sale for $1.00 and $1.50 at the Cooperative Society, Leavitt and Peirce's, and Herrick's. The lecture will be open to the public, but after 8.15 o'clock the doors will be closed...
...perhaps a shock to certain industrious vendors, to learn that their wares are illicit; and it will be an equal shock to many of their patrons. The recent court decision would apply equally to the College: lectures, until printed, are the property of the professors, and their sale for the profit of another person is illegal. In the College, however, leniency has been shown; many courses are largely an accumulation of fact, which can be conveniently condensed into notes; and such vest-pocket editions, properly used, do little harm. But in courses which are intended to develop processes of thinking...
Reserved seats for the lecture are now on sale for $1.00 and $1.50 at the Cooperative Society, Leavitt and Peirce's, and Herrick...
...scene on the eventful night of the election resembled nothing so much as a good old London bargain sale. In swaying, hysterical lines the remnants of their tempers until nerves sustained by peppermints and Pomeranians could stand it no longer. The line cracked and broke and in a few seconds the splendid hall seethed like hell's own kitchen. The few police were power-less-what could mere men do? More were hurried to the spot without effect, until finally firemen were appealed to to quiet burning Scotland, and with a double cordon of the sterner sex-firmly established...
...straw hats from the National Association of Men's Straw Hat Manufacturers of America-a rough Sennit straw for daytime wear, a leghorn for motoring and golfing, and a smooth straw for evening wear." Lady Astor: "I introduced a bill into the House of Commons to prohibit the sale of intoxicants to persons under 18 years of age. Opposition led me to remark that one of my opponents ' seemed to be the village donkey.' I was called to order and withdrew my epithet." Andrew J. Volstead: "Having been defeated for re-election to Congress, I called...