Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe's League for Democracy, the only non-partisan political group at the Annex, went out of existence at yesterday's student council meeting. The Council revoked the club's charter at the request of RLD president Elaine Tanner '50, who claimed that not enough girls had turned up at the re-organizational meeting last week to warrant rechartering...
...found an undergraduate organization back in the early thirties, you had a pretty easy time of it. You were in business as soon as you gave a kindly old man known as the Regent a list of the people who would be responsible for bad debts if your group went broke. You could hold meetings anywhere, publish and distribute anything you wanted, have Radcliffe girls as members, just so long as you stayed solvent and obeyed the laws of the City of Cambridge, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Federal Government of the United States...
...viceroy was pleased. Most of the noblemen who signed up furnished their own horses and equipment and paid their own way, but many of the enlisted men had to be financed. In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray Marcos in the vanguard...
...managed to quarrel with just about everybody he met, for long periods slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow. Born in the Ionian Islands in 1850 of mixed Anglo-Irish and Maltese stock, he emigrated to the U.S. at 19, slept in Manhattan doorways and vacant lots, finally went West to Cincinnati in 1871 and got a job on the Enquirer. Color-conscious Cincinnati readers liked his lush accounts of the seamier side of Queen City life, but were rocked to the heels when word got around that Reporter...
Hearn had married a Negro woman. In 1877 he pulled up stakes, deserted his wife and headed for New Orleans, where he went to work for the Item, later for the Times-Democrat...