Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council authorized Secretary General Sir Eric Drummond to let contracts for a new $4,000,000 League Secretariat building at Geneva. This authorization appeared to definitely spike proposals to transfer the seat of the League to Vienna...
Governor William H. Adams of Colorado and Oliver Henry Shoup, who was Governor before him (1919-23), swung sledges last week to drive a spike into a railroad tie under the Continental Divide west of Denver. The spike was a golden one and the two laborers made speeches. Mayor John F. Bowman of Salt Lake City made a speech, representing Governor George H. Dern of Utah. Then 2,500 people, on four special trains, rode forth and back through the six-mile Moffat tunnel thus formally opened. The tunnel connects Denver and the "near West" with the vast, enormously rich...
There are two rollicking sailors in this fractious and excellent comedy. One is Spike Madden, an amorous captain; the other is Salami, a tough, common, swab, whose philanderings around the world are vastly annoying to the first. In every port to which Spike Madden ventures, searching love and its accompanying delights, he finds that Salami has already appropriated the most lovely ladies. Enraged, he longs to meet his rival and give him a beating. He does not, however, discover the identity of Salami until this wayward character, traveling incognito, has worsted him in a street fight for which both...
...expected the rivals become fast friends and are to be seen together scouting the bright seas for frolic and fistfighting. In Marseilles they meet Marie, who loves the swab and is beloved of Madden. She, a most charming piece, almost defeats their friendship, but not quite. At the end, Spike Madden and Salami, both very drunk, fare forth from Marseilles in search of further fun beyond the seas...
John Barker Jr. 1L, Marvin Burt '28, E. F. Clark Jr. '28, Le Baron R. Foster '28, Russell Foster '28, Z. B. Keim '29, E. J. Latham '30, J. W. McCullock 2L, A. T. Safford 2L, J. E. Spike '29, P. W. Williams '25, Douglas Vernon...