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...whether or not the committee on Episcopy accepted his explanation that he had not "gambled" in stocks, that he had been buying his securities on the instalment plan while he seemed to have been buying them on margin,* that he did not know that his "stock broker" was a bucket shop operator (since jailed). Here, too, the Bishop seemed fixed to "out smart" Mr. Daniels, by boldly demanding a full and complete investigation of the charges...
...members of the Harvard Square Deal Association, a group of undergraduates attempting to pay back the scrubwomen involved in the recent Widener Library "scandal", were halted temporarily in their publicity work on Saturday when police from the Brattle Square station seized a poster and a bucket that the members had placed on a lampost on Massachusetts Avenue and took the articles to the station-house...
...groups advertising a dance which it is going to give for the purposes of raising funds for the scrubwomen and has placed posters and buckets all over Cambridge in giving the affair publicity. One of the buckets, evidently one in which sympathizers were to throw their contributions, was hung on a lampost on Massachusetts Avenue, not far from Walter Hastings Hall. Captain M. J. Brennan, of the Cambridge station ordered two of his subordinates to seize the bucket and the poster in accordance with a city ordinance that prohibits the posting of advertisements on lamposts, telephone poles, and the like...
Broadway Shadows is a painfully stupid play which Playwright Willard Earl Simmons has completely inundated with the contents of the old hokum bucket. Surrounded by ineptitudes of property, dialog and direction, the hero is purported to be a Social Registerite. He has left home to live in a $100-a-month "tenement" near Broadway because his rich father, who looks like a holidaying subway guard, believes his son to have raised a check. The young socialite at last finds happiness by marrying another inmate of the apartment house whose daughter-acted by Baby Marie Polizzotto-bakes a cake throughout...
...there at her bucket was Endy...