Word: tars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ties enough? Might not they find there way into the tar barrel along with the charcoal sheet? They might, And anyway does a noose around the neck convey the full meaning of Lowell House? So rumour has it that there may be a bauble cast in deathless bronze which neither moth nor dust can corrupt, something a little distinctive on the watch chain. But this is only rumour and Harvard must wait until at last Lowell House will find some charm...
...deterriorated into a general sex seminar, leaves little avenue for undergraduate acquaintance with matter of heterogenous importance other than a daily paper or magazine. The collegiate press has declined to a low ebb when it neglects such matters and conforms to such an apparent policy of provincialism.--D.C.S. Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina...
...their damp stone offices in Whitehall, last week, the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty pondered how to prevent another gassing of the fleet, another explosion of Jack Tar's touchy sense of fair play. Hardboiled, their Lordships reduced the greatest mutiny in 134 years to terms of money. They announced that Jack Tar will not have to take the 25% wage cut he mutinously refused; but he must take, added the Lords of Admiralty...
Reports from British warboats last week were that Jack Tar everywhere took his 10% cut with glum obedience, showed no further symptoms of gas. ¶ First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Austen Chamberlain announced that Admiral Sir Michael Hodges, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, had requested to be relieved because of illness (he was on sick leave during the mutiny); that the King had appointed Vice Admiral Sir John Kelly to succeed...
...aloud in lieu of an English composition. He and his friends belong to the In-or-In Club of which Penrod is president. When obliged to initiate a sniveling little teacher's pet, they paddle him till he needs a doctor, slick down his hair so thoroughly with tar that he makes his next appearance with a shaved skull. Penrod and his friend Sam have a fight at a birthday party. Penrod's dog dies and is buried near the clubhouse. A boy named Bitts gets his father to buy the lot on which the clubhouse stands...