Word: trodden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enough already. However, much opinions may differ on the prohibition amendment, the mass of people will raise against any attempt to curb the use of tobacco. That prehensile-nosed organization, the W. C. T. U. will meddle in other people's business once too often; and the heckled, down-trodden proletariat will, with starting abruptness, proceed to clean house. The disembodied a spirit of the W. C. T. U. floating around in interstellar space, where there is no tobacco smoke, will have time to reflect on the fact that the American people are like a buzz-saw. One cannot "monkey...
...members of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter of the University will hold a dinner in the society's room in the South Tower of Memorial Hall this evening at 6 o'clock. F. Schenck '09, of the English Department, will speak on "A Plea for the Down-trodden Assistant...
...Abbott's "The Head of the Family" is a poignant little tragedy revolving about the internal strife in a country family between a brutal husband and his down-trodden wife. The strong forces in the play are the two children whose education has far outstripped that of their parents...
...ideal. She is discovered by her sister in the arms of the stranger, and the news is conveyed to her "papa". The stranger flees, and the princess is shipped, as punishment, off to America. Once arrived in the "land of ready money", she follows the way often trodden by comic opera heroines in being forced by her irate parent dangerously near a marriage with an Italian count. The latter conveniently turns out to be a bigamist. The young American appears to be a millionaire, the prince is won over, and the plot is finished...