Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing the book for "The Yeomen of the Guard" Gilbert was faced with the problem of appeasing Sullivan, who thought he was too good a composer to bother with light opera. As a result this tale of Bloody tower and the romances that take place in its shadow comes closer to being "grand opera" than anything else the two men wrote together. For a change, the ending is not entirely happy...
Misspelling & Reclaiming. U.S. men of letters, strangely enough, were responsible for few new words (though it was Washington Irving who first accused his countrymen of worshiping the almighty dollar, and Henry James who invented the ivory tower). In 1893 a Lafayette professor named F. A. March suggested that an execution in the newly invented electric chair be called electricute. A reporter misspelled it, and though scholars howled in protest, the word became electrocute for good...
Dave Lanier of Thayer South won the freshman dormitory competition with a decisive 3 to 1 decision over Stoughton's John Chappell. Frank Rhuland of Holworthy and Art Tower of Thayer South were the other freshmen to reach the semi-finals...
...hair-raising climb on a 30-foot ladder brought them to the tower's second level, where they repeated the operation on four more bulbs. Lowell House officials knew nothing about the affairs until the night watchman turned the lights on in honor of Lowell's opera, "Amadis...
...years past, the Lowell Bell Tower has also been used as a meeting place for the Verein Turmwechter, the College German Society...