Word: scone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vehicles deported from the Harvard scone may be recovered at the Ellery Street Garage upon payment of towing charges. Offenders will also receive summonses, police explained...
...Highland Fling" has its high and low spots which when considered together spell out only fair entertainment. A sort of dual plot provides the main themes for the play: the removal of the ancient Scottish Stone of Scone upon which the Scottish Kings were crowned, and the reformation of a reprobate Scotsman are intermingled to produce many comic and many not-so-comic situations...
...convert the reprobate and attempts to do so although considerably distracted by his love for the town idiot, Silly, who likes her kisses cold and ghastly. She eventually changes her affections to the young laird, descendant of the ghost, leaving the ghost to go to heaven. The Stone of Scone is carted off to America by a Pittsburghian Scot in order that it may be safe from the English. On the occasion of its departure a send-off is given in the pub by a bag-piper which is pleasant if you hae Scotch blood in you. Another tantalizing feature...
...Station at 12:45 o'clock last night containing 31 Crimson gridiron performers and an entourage of coaches, trainers and managers. The train is due to arrive in Philadelphia at 10:15 this morning, and the squad will be hustled out to get a look at Franklin Field, the scone of Saturday's battle...
American college students are in such an "unhappy state" that "they cannot recognize a moral issue when they scone," according to an article in the current Atlantic Monthly by Paul P. Cram, instructor in History and dean of the History 1 staff...