Word: scollay
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...people from vice." Thus quipped vice man Samuel Johnson in one of his more lucid moments. According to Dr. Johnson's specifications, the U. T., as a public amusement, has saved the souls of countless Harvard men who might otherwise have whiled away long, useless hours of vice in Scollay Square, the Brookline Country Club, or Widener...
Rochester, it seems, had been in Boston before. "Where's Scollay Square? You know why they put the Old Howard there, don't you?" he queried. "They tell me 'cause its jes' half-way between Harvard Square and the Navy Yard...
...present Miss Hacon is at the Crawford House on Scollay Square where she does two dances; one a fan dance and the other an orchid-dance. She said the idea for the orchids came to her when she was in Chicago one night; she dreamt that she was walking down an avenue completely nude and that fountains on either side sprayed up orchids which fell upon her body, clothing...
...these men have had to pass no examinations in seamanship to get jobs. They merely submitted discharge papers from previous voyages. These papers were terse in the extreme, had no positive identification, were often sold by poverty-stricken sailors. In New York's Bowery or Boston's Scollay Square any landlubber could buy papers saying he was an accomplished Able Seaman. Many authorities blamed this situation in part for the Morro Castle disaster. Last June, Congress passed the Copeland Sea Safety Bill, which went into effect Dec. 26. The bill specifies such limitations as an eight-hour, three...
...typical trip was one made Thursday night when the group left Phillips Brooks House at about 7:30 o'clock making its first stop in Scollay Square. A vitriolic attack on Hearst came near precipitating a riot at this spot...