Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...
...Chorus (to the tune of The Old Oaken Bucket): The old family toothbrush, The old family toothbrush, The old family toothbrush That hangs in the sink. First it was father's, Then it was mother's, Then it was sister's; Now it is mine...
...Harvard Student Union, in Emerson D. It will be open to all students in the University and membership will automatically be granted to all those who vote to ratify the constitution. The meeting was brought about by an agreement among the several highly-partisan undergraduate political bodies to sink their differences in the interest of greater general effectiveness. The Peace Society led the movement by agreeing to join the Liberal Club and immediately thereafter the Student League for Industrial Democracy and the National Student League abdicated their ineffective if independent positions in the College...
...downright shocking. According to police, "Vice Lord" Vernon's women have been recruited from the poorer classes in Poland and Eastern Europe. They all know how to lisp in French-English and large numbers, after being "burnt out" in London, have been exported to South America, the sink into which the dregs of the world's illicit professionals drain...
That the Germans were also entitled to sink the Lusitania was roundly declared last week by one of Britain's highest naval authorities, Admiral the Earl of Cork and Orrery, commander of the British Home Fleet (1933-35), President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Admiral Commanding the Royal Naval War College (1929-32). To a London audience, over which gradually fell a great hush, the Admiral declared: "The Lusitania might have been used to transport 10,000 American troops on a single voyage to fight Germany. If women and children choose to cruise about in war areas...