Word: week-ends
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There is nothing more discouraging to slaving students, especially in the larger halls, to see a little knot of proctors standing in a corner of the room after the books have been given out rehearsing together their last week-end on the North Shore or trip to Revere for the roller-coaster. This sort of proctorial whispering, even though it may be a dull job to loaf about for three hours watching others pour out their heart's blood, is clearly a breach of trust. Memorial Hall, where it is possible to congregate beside the blackboards at the entrance...
...Last week-end the court of claims met at Forest Hills, L. I. Pretender Crawford's cohorts were weakened by an attack of intestinal flu which had laid low Adrian Quist, and an infected right hand which hampered Vivian McGrath, the curly-haired eccentric who plays a two-fisted backhand. Left at Crawford's side was only blond young John Bromwich who, even more eccentric than McGrath, is ambidextrous as well as two-fisted...
Displaying the most disappointing baseball of the year, the erratic Crimson nine returned last night from a four game week-end of three defeats and one victory, slipping to a weak third place in the League standings...
...such a king and be England still. The wind is whisking the newspapers around the room, under my feet they rip and tear and rustle. Camera shots, headlines. Where are there headlines in Shakespeare? Enter Henry Bolingbroke. Enter Stanley Baldwin. "The Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin spent a quiet week-end at Chequers, their home in the country." Enter King Richard, attended. Enter the Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester. "The proper wife of the Duke of Gloucester, herself the daughter of a wealthy Scottish industrialist, leads a quiet social life and disapproves of the night clubs frequented by Mrs. Simpson...
Winding up the House social season, the Dunster and Winthrop House spring dance promises a strenuous week-end of amusement-seeking...