Word: truck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Association's annual dinner comes the announcement that the spring drive for old clothing will begin today under the direction of B. L. Kilgour '27. The collectors who will canvass the dormitories have been notified by mail of their selection. The drive will last until Thursday, when a truck will be sent around to collect the clothes...
...entertainment which 15 showered around him, is pleasant, witty and kindly. He is cordial to all comers, and really likes them. A delegation of Armenians, headed by a priest, met him at the dock; he was embarrassed, pleased and touched. Very nearly run over in the street by a truck, he remarked: "It takes more than a New York motor to massacre an Armenian." The social reporter on the dock asked him if he liked American clothes. He promptly replied: "I have never been interviewed by a more charmingly dressed lady...
...heard over and over. "Ha-a-a-va-a-d, Ha-a-a-va-a-d, Ha-a-a-va-a-d." Indeed, the university whose manner of encouraging her sons had so piqued the representatives of the other colleges had mighty men in her service. There was Albert ("Truck") Miller, 200-pound sprinter ; Jeff Fletcher, high-hurdle star; "Soapy" Watters, Olympic middle-distance competitor; Bill Tibbetts, sturdy two-miler. Nevertheless, Emerson Norton, Georgetowner, performed ably in two events (pole vault, running high jump) ; the Georgetown two-mile relay team broke the world's indoor record (time...
Shortly after eight o'clock, Herr Engel, carrying his food from the counter, was attacked by the truck-driver--one of the strongest men in Cambridge, it is said, and one of the most bibulous who punched Herr Engel in the left cheek. Herr Engel, resentful, struck his assailant with his cane. Both men picked up chairs but Herr Engel was able to parry only three of the legs, receiving from the fourth a gash across the eye. Herr Engel, it appears, threw the truck-driver under the table and although his assailent was withdrawn from the restaurant without further...
...this started during the War when some of Herr Engel's cabbages that he was raising for the government were thrown at him. The case was brought into court but nothing was done. The truck-driver, it seems, has borne the grudge and having read in the CRIMSON about Herr Engel's proposed trip to Germany, resolved that his enemy should not escape unseathed...