Word: strays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience of its coppers to improve the efficiency of loyalist machine-gunners. The Student Union has thus committed itself and its hearers to a certain set of preconceived ideas, to a "cause" which, however, emotionally satisfying, is hardly enlightening. Unless the Union recaptures its spirit of impartiality it will stray from the road of greatest usefulness and popularity and inevitably lose itself in the narrow, trackless paths of partisanship...
...stray ramble through the back pages of the University's catalogue turned up some amusing examples of plain and fancy names among the student body. Perhaps most breathtaking is that of H. R. X. d'Aeth, English graduate student from Cambridge University, who spoke as a delegate at the undergraduate part of the Tercentenary last September. For harmonic reciprocity we have Messrs. Ting and Toong of China, for laconic resignation there is I. Pass '40, while B. Schur '40 exhorts all to verify before jumping to conclusions. It's getting to be sinfully weather, too, as A. Schuh '38 will...
...years cooped up in an office as a clerk in the Louisville office of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Jacob Justin Keifer got his start in pigeon breeding at 13, when he invested savings of $5 on two pigeons of which one was a "coaxer"-handsome cock capable of attracting stray females to his cote. For a few years after that Jacob Keifer tried raising and racing homing pigeons and at 19 went to Texas to make his fortune. When he went home to Louisville, he married and settled down to pigeon-rearing in earnest. He got into judging about...
Both of the representative Twoks that reached Manhattan last week showed scenes of the most exciting event in the Eskimo year: the reindeer roundup into the communal corral. Dogs are chasing reindeer, Eskimos are wrestling with stray stags, animals are galloping wildly and villagers are slipping, sliding and shouting...
...Hottest Harpist Casper Reardon. Biggest hit of the day was All Points West by Rodgers & Hart. Here, against a tragic throbbing of strings and weird wind effects, Baritone Raymond Middleton Jr. called trains, recited the cynical, sentimental, sniggering thoughts of a train announcer, was unexpectedly shot by a stray bullet...