Word: scollay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dateless, there is Scollay Square -- sexy, sin and satisfying. Rosita Royce and her trained doves do soul-stirring number at the Old Howard Atheneum, while Philadelphia's own Billy eese 'n' Crackers" Hagen atributes his bit of wit to evening...
...indication of this has been the move to make parietal rules more lenient. The fact that Yale now allows women in rooms until 11 p.m. over the weekends may, however, not be surprising to those who remember the school's founder: Elihu Yale, born in Scollay Square...
Another type of refuge is provided by the Boston Police for breakers of the law and offenders of public etiquette. Scollay Square is a quiet place, and seldom does anything really to get out of hand. Most bars are well behaved; nevertheless the proprietor of perhaps the best-behaved tavern in the Square estimates that the law is broken in his place about twenty-five times every night...
...Salvation Army, not to be outdone by the Calvary Rescue Mission, holds occasional serenades, but not many people in Scollay Square are interested in the redemption of their souls. So the Army plays for a while and then goes away...
...Scollay Square was named after Colnel William Scollay, Class of 1804. Scollay was Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Boston and his family was one of the first in the city commercially, socially, and civically. The Scollays were a dignified and staid family, but are now extinct in Boston. It is just as well