Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Tarzan Bajazzo, who for years had amused London, Paris, Manhattan by faultless table manners and monchalance in smoking cigarets; by suicide, in Berlin. This trained chimpanzee set fire to the straw in his cage...
Last week a despatch from Madrid announced new hope for a successful compromise between thrills and humanity. Utilizing discarded automobile tires a rubber coat has been devised for the bull ring horse, thick straw pads hung along the sides. It is hoped that bulls will not object to the innovation; will be satisfied with burying their horns in straw; will not insist upon horseflesh or nothing...
Agassiz--O'Neill's "The Straw"--2:15 and 8:15 o'clock tonight. Byno means the last straw for the Radcliffe Idler. Harvard puts on another play...
...Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, the Idler Club of Radcliffe will present Eugene O'Neill's tragedy. "The Straw." There will be two evening performances beginning at 8.15 o'clock, and a Saturday matinee scheduled for 2.15 o'clock...
...Cincinnati, one Howard Stribling, 20, of Columbus, Ohio, ate 62 oranges, spat out the seeds, broke his own Ohio record; won $20, a straw hat, a walking stick. His masked rival, one "Hoggie," ate 53, was satiated. Orange potentates rejoiced...