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Word: scollay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closest city is Trenton, considered by Princetonians as the poor man's Scollay Square. Last year the Nassau Sovereign described Trenton as "a fair rose, a blushing maiden," with its tongue so far in its cheek that it almost choked. Students who go there are viewed as morally depraved, even if just for the movies...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: $50 Will Bring a Girl, But What's The Use? | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

First of all, there is the all-night movie in Scollay Square. The features change too rapidly to keep track of. We've been informed, however, that this week's show includes four of Tom Mix's very best. Absolutely the place to go if you're rather not come home and face your roommates...

Author: By "g." Ripzky-korastoff, | Title: Boston Beckons Visitors with Burlesque, Cuisines, Movies, Cabarets, and Football | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

...just about the same as its recent predecessors. It contains twelve cartoons, drawings and pictures, of which two or three are mildly funny. Instead of the usual feature of the freshman issue, an annotated street map of Cambridge, the center spread is a scrawled but reasonably accurate picture of Scollay Square. The poetry and prose departments are lukewarm at best-the best being a nicely illustrated but overlong discussion of the Social Register by one Rex Pose. Perhaps the funniest part of this issue is the absence of all titles behind the names of the executive board on the masthead...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

...today marks the anniversary of another ponderous date in the story of civilization; it was 173 years ago that the British were forced to evacuate their entrenchments behind what is now known as Scollay Square. Which explains the colorful parades that will appear tonight on that historic spot, and the evacuation of the taverns at midnight that will recall the great exodus of 1776. Thus do true Bostonians demonstrate their deep seated sense of traditional rites and solemn observances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saint Patrick's Day | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...civic conscience of Boston, like a goboon in a Scollay Square saloon, is a battered vessel. It was severely dented last November when Mayor James Michael Curley, a man with a mountainous contempt for public opinion, returned happily to his $20,000-a-year job after spending five months in prison for mail fraud. Since then, Boss Curley has given the vessel a few more kicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Curley's Boys | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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