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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irish bar, he wandered the Continent for several years. Profoundly excited by the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau, Blennerhassett had been attracted to Paris, where he soon began intensively cultivating the taste for revolution and romanticism which was to be his ruin a few years later a few thousand miles away...
...leaders somehow patched up the quarrels which had kept them wrangling since the death of Boss William Scott Vare. Boss Yare would have been glad to know that his successors managed to win by 47,000 votes, after an expenditure of about $600,000 which was only two hundred thousand more than the Democrats spent. One who was certainly glad to know it was Contractor Louchheim, Mayor-elect Wilson's patron, who was supposed to have retrieved all the money he put up on his man by collecting $125,000 worth of election bets...
When ears had been plugged with cotton, a signal was given--and some thousand students jolted in their beds. With their heads projecting inside the bass bell, the pair swinging the clapper have never been able to hear the tinkling syncopation of their rival bellman. Hence the regular bass booming is completely divorced from the higher pitched trills...
...Some two thousand years ago legend ran that a certain king of Pisa in Elis, OEnomaus by name, refused the hand of his fair daughter save to that gallant Greek youth who should beat him in a chariot-race. Suitor after suitor tried and failed, for OEnomaus was a skillful warrior--but at last and one must suspect with the help of Hymen--a young prince "from over sea", triumphed. That was Pelops...
...thousand five hundred dollars was voted to Phillips Brooks House from the budget of the Student Council at a regular meeting of the Council last night in University Hall...