Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more serious argument suggests that during football season drinking begins during or right after a game, and that to permit it to continue past the start of a House dance would be to risk numerous wrecked autos between Cambridge and Wellesley. There is a slight risk of this, but persons inclined to drink can now find places to booze until midnight, and no similarly disastrous results appear for parties held at other times of the year, or even on occasions like Spring Weekends, where drinking goes on, though not in rooms, from early afternoon until the liquor runs...
Twenty years later John L. Sullivan had come to Boston from Roxbury. At the advent of another tavern renaissance, society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brookline and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...
...Modified Wellesley. Songstress Lea (from Leacock) is bedeviled by the fact that her singing reminds people of Lovelorn Jazz Singer Lee Wiley-a matter of pleasure to others and pride to herself, but bothersome nonetheless. She stands quietly before her audience, looking sweet-faced as the college girl she recently was, smiling a slow, shy smile. Her singing voice is satisfyingly low, delightfully sandy, bewitchingly intimate, and her vocal style is almost like speaking, conveying a rare sense of lucidity and conviction. She sings many-too many-unfamiliar numbers, e.g., You Irritate Me So, This Is Where Love Walked...
...College Houses contributed a total of 819 pledged pints, with Kirkland and Dunster accounting for the highest numbers. Other totals were as follows: freshmen, 229; Radcliffe, 111; graduate students, 147; employees, 4; and Wellesley...
Stevenson's plane rumbled up to the crowd, which shrank back respectfully. Politicians and party workers raced through the crowd to get to the gangway. The youthful crowd began to shout section by section, "Wellesley for Adlai!" and "M.I.T. for Adlai!", then "B.U. for Adlai!" As the shouts continued, the elderly Furcolo supporter muttered, "Can anyone here vote...