Word: vesuvius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like Vesuvius, the Union relapses only to appear once more. Un question ably it has a place in the academic world and all that it needs to do to claim it is again to burst forth in forensic splendor. The subject of "Is Harvard Collegiate?" will doubtless provide sufficient scope for all those with latent oratorical ambitions and yield much interest and entertainment for those who come to scoff or pray. Let it be hoped this eruption of the Union will have a positive result, for like volcanoes, debating societies are only worthwhile when definitely active or definitely extinct...
...Excursion by sightseeing auto with guide to Pompeil and Vesuvius...
...eating wolves roam the central and southern provinces, according to information from Rome. During the past two months, several human beings have been devoured?a soldier returning from leave, at Palena; a woman, on a country road. At Vito, on the lower slope of Mt. Vesuvius, females of a church congregation were obliged to barricade themselves in the church while the men attacked a waiting pack of hungry lupines...
Although the French Chamber of Deputies for the greater part of the past week resembled Vesuvius rather than a parliamentary institution, M. François de Wendel, in the name of the Commission on Foreign Affairs, moved in an atmosphere of noiseless solemnity an address of sympathy from the tribune of the Chamber to the U. S. House of Representatives on the death of ex-President Wilson: "The Chamber of Deputies is profoundly moved by the news of the death of President Wilson. Having a grateful memory of this great citizen, under whose Presidency the United States brought to France...
...that we should be ashamed to. The stealing of cannon from the government armory was a more bagatelle. One bright wit filled the morning coffee with Tartar Emetic. So vile was the coffee, that no one noticed the taste, and the Yard shortly took on the aspect of Mount Vesuvius. It was common to wage giant war in Commons, when no one's life was safe, Great days. It was common to be cold in winter and hungry, under-fed at all times. Good old days...