Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very realistic and most tastefully arranged. The pirate captain arrives with Constance, who is presently followed by her companion, Cherry, who has come aboard to be near her mistress. Dawdle and Rattles come aboard in disguise, bent on rescuing Constance. They have been informed of her capture by Rooney, porter of the Shorn Lamb, who has been a witness of most of the scenes of the preceding act. They join the pirates, and after being duly sworn in, concoct a plan of escape. Meanwhile the girls who were to have been Constance's bridesmaids appear on the deck in bathing...
...scene of the third act is laid before Justice Wheezy's house. The pirates are brought in, loaded with chains, by the soldiers. Rooney, who is as much of a rascal as any of them, prefers the charge against the prisoners, and the justice orders them off to prison. The bridesmaids, however, beg for mercy on the ground of its being leap-year. The justice finally gives in, the pirates are brought back, Constance is given to Dawdle, while Cherry takes possession of Rattles, and the play ends in a passionate burst of music from the throats of everyone...
...Phillips of the Association Gymnasium. Wason reached 8 ft. 10 in., but Phillips overcame his 2 in. handicap by a kick of 9 ft. 14 in. The tug-of-war between the Harvard and Tech freshmen was the next event. Tech had the weight. Technology was anchored by Rooney, with Greer, Lyman and Coles for a rope team. The Harvard team was composed of Tallant, (anchor,) McClellan, White and DeNormandy. Tech won the drop by about 5 in.; Harvard was very slow in getting down. Tallant made several attempts to regain the rope but they were ineffectual. Tech...