Word: spreads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitations, programs, and tickets for the Senior Spread will be given out on Tuesday from 9 until 1 o'clock and from 2 until 6 o'clock at Massachusetts 16. The Box lists must be handed in by then...
...fell as though poleaxed. Dogs, cats, chickens, ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however survivors were rushing frantically about screaming "War Gas!" fleeing perhaps away from and perhaps toward the Invisible Enemy...
...that the phosgene be dumped into the North Sea, others declaring that such a procedure would poison untold millions of fish, and still others recommending that the safest thing to do would be decant the gas into new, strong tanks and sell it as quickly as possible to widely spread consumers. Eventually the consensus of opinion was that the phosgene should be disintegrated by the admixture of other chemicals into a harmless residual product...
...addition to Rodemich's orchestra, there will be one other which has not as yet been selected. These two orchestras are to provide music for dancing in Memorial Hall and outside on the Delta west of the Hall, where a canvas will be spread if the weather permits of outside dancing...
Permanent mementos of the Spread will be given out to all guests in the form of leather card cases and dance programs...