Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with him a year at Notre Dame. I still regard him as having the best mind, memory and fund of general knowledge of anyone I've ever known. He turned down a chance to take the exams for a Rhodes Scholarship in order to go to Harvard Law School. He was a much better scholar than...
Across the street in a filling station, Otis Gillette, the proprietor, loaded his rifle and thrust it into the hands of Tipton Cox, 17, a high-school boy who had scuttled in for shelter. Cox, like all the boys in town, knew and admired Earl. Unlike Earl he had never shot a big rifle, but he lay on the floor, took aim. As Durand spied him and raised a smoking rifle, Cox fired. Earl Durand crumpled with a grunt, hit in the chest. He crawled back into the bank, put his revolver to his own temple, pulled the trigger. Bank...
Pointe Coupée eventually diverted its inheritance to building a school, but except in the Civil War years, West Baton Rouge annually had distributed the interest on Julien Poydras' money to dark, full-breasted Creole brides. Of the $2,400 or so paid each year, the poorest brides get the most. Just how much each receives is the secret of the three commissioners who administer the fund. Otherwise, jealousies might cloud the fame of Julien Poydras...
...Federal Theatre rival, The Hot Mikado kisses the Old Boys good-by at about the eighth bar of the first song, turns Titipu into a dance hall before latecomers are in their seats, makes Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo carry on like three little maids from reform school, and finishes Act I in an uproar when Katisha busts in, no hatchet-faced termagant, but an eye-rolling, hip-shaking, torch-singing Red Hot Mama...
Yesterday afternoon at a meeting in Kendall House, the Legal Aid Bureau, which is manned by Law School honor students, elected officers for 1939-40. The following were chosen; Edward Le C. Vogt. President; Hubert Nexon, Vice-President; William Hulburt, Treasurer; Edward Gignoux, Secretary; and Irving Panzer, Senior director on the Board...