Word: dozens
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Most of the abusive, threatening letters received by Poet Russell last week were from members of "The Knights of Columbanus" (not Columbus), a semisecret Roman Catholic organization founded a half-dozen years ago at Belfast. But a few persons belonging to other "deteriorated" Irish societies also seemed to feel insulted...
...which the wife of an Indian Maharajah is taken for a ride. With an Englishman disguised as an Indian chauffeur at the wheel, the car sped to Yeroda jail in Poona. There officials did all in their power to make St. Gandhi comfortable, showed reporters a dozen woolly animals of purest strain, purchased by His Majesty's Government to supply the prisoner with his favorite beverage: goat's milk...
...Messrs. Cooper, McReynolds, Carson, Atwater and some 300 other patrons were dancing, two dozen U. S. agents fell upon their tables, plucked at hip flasks and pint bottles, set the place into an uproar. Women shrieked and fainted. One tore the sleeve out of her escort's coat trying to drag him to safety. Arrested were eleven patrons on the charge of liquor possession (a misdemeanor under the Volstead Act), 16 employes charged with providing "set-ups." Through a hooting, jeering Broadway crowd, the 27 men were taken to the police station, later held in $500 or more bail...
...which in 1929 made more radio sets than any other company. But. after dropping to $14 1/2 during the Break, Grigsby-Grunow has been slow to recover, for radio business is risky business-or so it seems to the public after what happened to Roister, Freshman and a half-dozen others. And, in addition to risky radios, Grigsby-Grunow has decided to manufacture refrigerators, a field where General Motors, General Electric and Kelvinator present formidable competition. In 1928 General Asphalt Co. beat a disorderly retreat from this field...
...four years ago the freshman-sophomore fence rush at Yale was as much of an institution as Derby Day, and the only blot on the otherwise fair record of the class of '26 was its pathetic gesture toward dignity in abolishing it. A few black eyes and a half dozen fist fights usually resulted on these happy occasions, but these could hardly justify the doing away with an event at once picturesque and traditional. N. Y. Herald Tribune...