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...with all the terrors of darkness, these same ones, anxiously tested the strength of their rope fire-escapes. And this is not strange, considering the scare headlines in yesterday's CRIMSON, for the prospect of being thrown from a curtained taxi-cab into the Waldrof after being treated with tar and feathers is far from pleasant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Terrible Night | 10/25/1923 | See Source »

...half of the maximum obtainable illuminating gas, as well as ammonium sulphate. On the other hand, the illuminating gas resulting from the new process is of a better quality, and five times the amount of motor fuel oil is obtained, in addition to benzine, pitch, creosote and innumerable coal tar products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mr. Ford's Coal | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

...today and the baseball game must be played tomorrow. The sky has been searched with powerful telescopes but not a cloud has been seen to break the viciously brazen arch of the heavens. Yet even if the sun continues its merciless glare and the asphalt becomes a sea of tar, the shadows of Harvard rooters will throng to the arenas of sport to cheer on their teoms. . . . "The rest is silence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SPOUT, RAIN!" | 6/22/1923 | See Source »

Last week the Camelots du Roi (Royalists), emulating Facismo, attacked three socialists with tar, ink, sticks and castor oil. The Socialists are: M. Marc Sangnier, leader of the Socialist Radical Party; M. Marius Moutet, a prominent defender in the Caillaux trial; M. Viollette, formerly Minister of Subsistence. Said M. Sangnier: " They can cover me with tar and force castor oil down my throat, but they can never win me to their methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Camelots du Roi | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...opinion, artificial and irrelevant. Neither of these poems represents Mr. Abbott at his best. Another sonnet, contributed by Mr. Herbert Jones, begins well and then surrenders to the difficulties of form, tangling the Swinburnian idea in a mass of involved constructions. Mr. Cozzens's "Two Arts" is a tar more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROSE WRITERS OUTSTRIP POETS IN MAY ADVOCATE | 5/9/1923 | See Source »

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