Word: delta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boxes and tables will be placed in the Delta and will be furnished and decorated by the Committee. The larger boxes will have room for from 12 to 16 occupants, will be near the Hall, while the smaller boxes, holding from six to eight will be near the apex of the Delta. Tables which seat one to three couples will be situated in the middle of the Delta. Two of the boxes and six of the tables will be reserved for the patronesses, whose names are to be announced later...
Dancing will be held both in the Hall and outside on the Delta where a canvas will be spread over the grass and walks. The program will include 20 dances of five minutes each, with only one three minute encore, before supper, which will be served from 12 to 1.30 o'clock. After supper cutting in will be in order...
...valley of a great and ancient river lie the cities of Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak. They are prosperous and flourishing communities. Their inhabitants move briskly about in Fords, listen in on radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled...
...where I is." Little matter where, for this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women...
...standing of the Beta league in the interfraternity league is as follows: Won Lost Alpha Sigma Phi 11 0 1.000 Sigma Omega Psi 8 4 .667 Tau Epsilon Phi 8 4 .667 Sigma Alpha Mu 7 4 .636 Lambda Chi Alpha 8 5 .615 Delta Upsilon 5 8 .385 Phi Epsilon Pi 2 10 .167 Tan Delta...