Word: vendors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of May 13 this year, a dispute over an ice cream vendor precipitated the biggest riot New Haven has seen since the bloody fracas of 1919. Over 1500 students and scores of policemen battled with pillows, water bombs, fire hoses, billy clubs, and drawn revolvers...
...uproar at Yale began when a Good Humor man and an ice-cream vendor known as a Humpty-Dumpty man began squabbling over a choice parking place. A cop intervened, and students by the hundreds streamed into the street, where they spent two hours shooting firecrackers, waving banners, letting the air out of tires, and jeering at the cops...
Yale undergraduates have raised protests, against what they termed "untoward brutality" of the police in the riot which started when students protested police efforts to force an ice cream vendor to move...
Final Proof. In Ames, Iowa, Student Don Young, who gave a street vendor $10 for a "genuine cashmere sweater," set fire to it in his backyard to see if he had bought one of the "explosive" variety, watched sadly while it smoldered to ashes in five minutes, decided it was genuine after...
...counting of Yarmouth shepherds (ina, mina, tethera, methera) became "Eena, meena, mina, mo"; and Westmorland's hevera,devera,dick (eight, nine and ten) is the most likely origin of "Hickory, dickory, dock." In the 18th Century, "Hot Cross Buns / One a penny / Two a penny" was a street vendor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep / Have you any wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready to fly out when...