Word: trawler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This fleet is said to be terrorized by a rum pirate called the Gray Ghost, a big steel trawler, which raids the rum ships and steals their cargoes. Being engaged in illicit trade themselves they are afraid to appeal to the United States or to the British Government, whose flag they usually fly for protection...
...distant Roxbury or South Boston they might save themselves carfare and do Cambridge a good turn by opening a campaign to Clean Up Harvard Square. The muckers that haunt its precincts are a favorite subject for humorists:-- their pleas for "scrambles"; their shrill persistency in disposing of "Globe, Trawler, Transcri't, and A-Merrycan"; their conversational invasions of unprotected dormitories, are all notorious. But the social service workers seem to have overlooked them. If we stop to think of them seriously, the dangers in their path are evident. The examples they see among students are not always good for their...