Word: streets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unpopular uncle, buried twelve years, was exhumed, assayed, found to contain enough arsenic to kill a team of mules. Other exhumations followed until 22 arsenicated corpses were discovered. Only then did a pair of Hungarian gendarmes, black cock feathers in their bowler hats, march down the main street of Nagyrev to arrest the terrible Mrs. Fazekas. She saw them coming, instantly drained a stiff tumbler of her potent essence of flypaper and died...
...Wall Street (Columbia). Spectators who wonder whether the timeliness of this film's background?a stockmarket panic?is the result of extraordinary financial foresight or extraordinary speed in production should be informed that it is simply luck. In plot and characters Wall Street is less lucky. It presents the fundamentally interesting but familiar and clumsily treated situation of an iron-sinewed, low-born trader who is in love with a beautiful, cultured woman. Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle do as well as they can in these parts. Silliest shot: a ruined speculator committing suicide by jumping through an office window...
...Tuesday, December 10, Mr. H. M. Watkins, a British Laborite, will lead a discussion after luncheon on "An Englishman Looks at American Industry" at the Harvard Liberal Club, 66 Winthrop Street...
...concert will be open to members of the University without charge; the public may purchase tickets for the entire course for $5 each; single tickets, $1.25 each. Tickets are on sale at Amee Brothers' Bookstore, 21 Brattle Street...
...proverbial individualism of Harvard men has in two instances led them to precede the Plan by several years. The three-year tenantry of rooms has been combined with the opportunity of going South to Mt. Auburn Street, leaving behind the monstrosity of Memorial Hall, the bulkiness of Widener and the noise and bustle of the Square. The House Plan, in at least two respects, has had its pioneers at Harvard...