Word: showering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bookshop is an insidious thing. Its portals are as inviting as the jaws of a trap. The unwary passerby is almost irresistibly lured into its mellow interior, perhaps to while away a pleasant hour in contemplation of its variegated shelves, perhaps only to escape a sudden shower. There is so agreeable an absence of obligation. No one feels the least demand upon his purse when he enters a bookshop, any more than when he strays into a friend's library. He means only to "look around," feels a. certain pride in assuring the unobtrusive salesman that he is hardly...
Water, water almost everywhere and not a drop too much to drink! The piteous cry has resounded through Cambridge during all this week of "gala festivities". Portly undergraduates and graduates have been dwindled to emaciated shadows; it is not inconceivable that some unfortunates disappeared under the confetti shower of Tuesday in nameless but heroic graves...
...realize that Harvard, which makes so much of its traditional free speech should tolerate such a flagrant breach of its principles by its hirelings! I determined that this atrocity should be followed up immediately. It was, As I picked myself up the doors behind me were opened and a shower of my books and papers caromed off my head...
...been discussed, Bullard will never get the medal of honor he deserves for continuous and intrepid service at the old pipes--a clear, fine voice coming out of his ever-ready frame--a sort of fire-horse, always on the job. To Carson, the heroine, goes the genuine-orchid-shower-bouquet for being quite the demurest piece of work that the Hasty Pudding Ladies' Auxiliary has presented since Vinton Freedley shaved particularly close in order to do justice to the role of Princess of Loravia. J. M. Brown '23 was consistently effective and self-effacing--the only actor...
...last eruption took place in March 1921, when Professor Atl guided a party of 30 persons to visit the crater. "Pop" exhibited its proclivity for violence by killing one of the party with a shower of rocks...