Word: street
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York State's special election for a vacated seat in the U.S. Senate there was the sound of drums. The most emphatic thumps came from the Republican camp. There, looking worried and work-worn, stood John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister, an ex-Wall Street lawyer and an eminent internationalist. He was doing something not to be expected of a Republican candidate of New York...
...workers [of Yugoslavia] have long since discerned the repulsive and vile snout of the Belgrade deserter to the camp of imperialism, hireling spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor to his country and to the cause of Socialism." The people are not deceived, said the Literary Gazette, when "the Wall Street gentlemen spare no dollars to make the insolent dwarf Tito appear a giant...
Students, apparently still unsatisfied with a ruling which had abolished fraternities in 1855, watched Ivy grow and decided that its organizers "had something." Tiger, Cap and Gown, and other social groups were soon organized, and by 1900, Prospect Street had become tabbed "The Street," and almost half the college belonged to clubs...
Waving red railroad flares, the marches set fire-to leaf-piles and maple trees to add to the gaiety, and chant the procession onto "Nas-sau Street!" As the crowd, now 1000 strong, juggernauts hand-in-hand down the thoroughfare, the band leader cake-walks and a masquerade tiger polkas with random dates...
...percent. As the Princeton pointed out following last spring's bicker, in a body of young men capable of gaining admission to Princeton "there is no such animal as a socially undesirable student." To solve the situation, the paper called for "more initiative from the men on Prospect Street," the same sort of initiative that got the whole system rolling seventy years...