Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swords of the Montagues and the Capulets are out and there are slashes and recoveries, thrusts and parries, blows--when Benvolio leaps into the midst to stop the fray. Tybalt is upon him. The Vagabond shudders and runs from the scene...
...scene is any good Harvard game, a real big one of nation wide interest. Thirty or forty thousand people have streamed across Larz Anderson Bridge, have kept their own tickets, thank you, and are esconced safely in their seats somewhere between the score board and the loud speakers. And of this number, or any number, about 850 to 1000 people have been admitted free of charge...
First of all there are the ushers, about 350 strong. They are in the stadium by 12.30 o'clock ready for the awfully early comers. Backing them are 150 ticket takers on the scene even before the ushora...
...event, the prize for the class of 1940 is captured by the student whose father is a "drawbridge operator", a position which is rapidly fading from the national scene by reason of obsolescence. Seventy-three "executives in corporations and large business concerns" which apparently have not been taxed out of existence father 73 sons in the class. Last year the number in this group was 101, so it can readily be soon that a student i this category will soon be as rare as the "Laster's" son, or the boy whose father is an "ophthalmologist...
...poor, the prophets and holy men of Dorchester are always with us. That crusader against the red menace. that protector of the young, Mr. Dorgan, gladly offered himself up on the altar of publicity for his cause last spring. Another doughty warrior of Dorchester now appears upon the scene waving a banner emblazoned with the glorious words: "It is perfectly obvious to anyone that the registration and voting in this city has been crooked for years...