Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow afternoon the CRIMSON will publish on the bulletin board in front of the building, an inning-by-inning score of the Harvard-Yale baseball game at New Haven. A special wire from Yale Field will bring the results of each inning's play direct to Plympton Street, where the scores will appear earlier than on any similar bulletin in Cambridge...
...barricade of sandbags and barbed wire was erected last week by perspiring young French Royalists outside the Paris office of their obstreperous news organ, L'Action Française. Parisians stopped to loiter, to tip one another the wink, to shrug and pass on. They knew that fiery, effervescent Royalist Editor Leon Daudet must be preparing with dramatic Daudeterie to resist arrest. A sentence of five months in jail "for defaming the police" has hung over him these two years; and only a fortnight ago he refused once more to set a time convenient to himself to serve...
...save that of the "King of France,"* immediately called out last week his "Camelots du Roi" a band of young Royalists thus derisively nicknamed "The King's Hawkers" because they have at times hawked upon the streets copies of L'Action Française. With sandbags, barbed wire, and 100 "Camelots" to defend him,. Editor Daudet felt safe in his office, announced that he would reside there indefinitely in a self-proclaimed state of siege. To reporters he cried: "My house, my stable and my inkpot are henceforth here! My Leaguers ["Camelots") will not allow...
...special wire from Yale Field will transmit an inning-by-inning score of the contest to the CRIMSON, and the scores will be posted on the bulletin board outside the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street. This bulletin will be the only one in Cambridge the day of the game to keep members of the University informed of the New Haven engagement. The second game of the series is to be played at Soldiers Field on Wednesday, and if a third game is necessary, it will be played at the Polo Grounds, New York, on June...
...himself called, M. Daudet was adamant; once and for all time, he did not intend to accept Monsieur Le Prefect's invitation. M. Le Prefect hinteu vaguely at arrest, bowed and retired. Now French policemen don't often speak of such things. M. Daudet was warned, and placed bob wire about his building, bolted doors and windows, and waited, first hinting to his friends and the police that he would die before he stooped to the Prefect's compulsory hospitality...