Word: scollay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after all, Harvard University has some small claim to cosmopolitanism. If one searches far enough, he will doubtless find, either in Widenor stacks, along Beacon Street, or in Scollay Square, representatives of nearly every nation, reveling in the bracing New England climate. They come and come, from Alaska, from Turkey, and from 33 places situated alphabetically between these two extremes. Numerically Canada heads the list with 48, and the gradient falls away to Palestino's one lone lorn special student...
...City Censor, in his wisdom, refuses to allow the slightest bit of lascivious titillation from the stages of the uptown theatres, the citizen with an incurably low-down taste may still pander to his lower instincts by slipping furtively down to the Old Howard Athenaeum (take subway to Scollay Square, walk down to Howard Street...
...CRIMSON lauds this toleration on the part of the old city. Psychologists and sociologists of the modern school unite in pointing out the dangers of unsublimated repression. The Back Bay is protected, the Scollay Square sot, and the inquisitive college boys are taken care of Bostonia...
...attitude of Nemo isn't fair. I do not question, and I doubt if Lindbergh would question, the fact that the crass vulgarities of Nemo and his type are true reflections of character. Even if addled adolescents were not so noisily boastful about their Scollay Square standards, the same would be as obvious as dirty finger nails. No one disputes their preference for bawds, flasks and vacuums. It is easy to believe that their taste is genuine. By the same token one can readily admit the looseness of their code of business ethics. If they were on the other...
...companies deserved; there is nothing to support the argument that some companies may be innocent and are consequently getting a raw deal. None of the members of that Jesse James guild had any more chance--or desire--to maintain their business integrity than a sailor landed in Scollay Square after six months at sea has of keeping himself physically inviolate; and it was only because some of the boys became disgruntled at having their snouts kept out of the public trough by their rivals that they let out a loud and agonized howl and gave away the whole business...