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...amounts of Irish whiskey and Irish blood won $5 for a rag-clad "merchant seaman." The donors were two soft-hearted Wigglesworthy residents, Frank Ensign '52 and Richard Craven '52, who admitted to Yard cops yesterday that they were completely taken in by the confidence man's tale of woe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stranger's Story Hits Irish Hearts | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

Recently, De Gasperi himself went to Calabria to talk to the peasants. He told them that, until the situation was cleared up by law, they might keep the land they had seized. He promised reform. Said he: "... I am no revolutionary, but I cry woe betide landowners who don't heed the call of the present hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...look Downey-n the mouth," commented the disciple. "Try to look Merriman." The hoary sage replied, "Tisdale of woe has me Hagerty, Gant Gropp my way out. Things would Albright-en considerably if I had some Jackson--how about a Finnegan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Gazes at Cracked Crystal, Sees Broken Bulldog | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

Other big money losers in the Harvard family are graduate schools. The chief worries here are the Divinity School, which has almost always been in the red, and the Medical School, whose woe is increased by the high costs of its many research programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dwindling Reserves | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...fear to hear our Lord's stern words: 'Woe unto you, Episcopalians, hypocrites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God Pity Us | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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