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...Osborne is the author of many widely read books on prisons and prison reform. The best of his writing include "Within Prison Walls," "The Adventures of a Green Dragon," and "Society and Prisons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSBORNE TO SPEAK ON CRIMINALITY | 2/6/1925 | See Source »

...dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport in which raisins or grapes are snapped from burning brandy and eaten. See example I " "The wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like a demon as we burnt ourselves and snatched at the fruit. This fantastical mirth was called Snap-dragon.' "STEELE, Toiler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flapdragon | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...Lampy" merited the following: "The Christmas number of the Lampoon, which came out yesterday, is unusually entertaining and contains drawings rather above the average of college publications. The sketch on the cover, drawn by T. M. Hastings '98 is very effective and represents Lampy astride Pegasus treading over the Dragon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Xmas Spirit 40 Years Ago Was Same as Today "Grind" Condemned--Receptions Given--Lampy Praised | 12/20/1924 | See Source »

...Mitsuru Toyama, head of the Black Dragon Society?an organization active in agitation against the U. S. after the passage of the recent U. S. exclusion bill?that permission was accorded to exhume the unknown patriot and give him what is virtually a national burial. In the military cemetery, a great tomb will be erected over the grave, and its position will be near the last resting place of General Nogi who distinguished himself in the Russo-Japanese War and who committed hara-kiri on the night of the funeral of the Emperor Meiji...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unknown Patriot | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...Amorest was a charming little person, bright-eyed, with snowy hair. Rich Cousin Francis liked to stroke it when she came to visit him. He was an invalid in the charge of a housekeeping dragon and he hinted to Mrs. Amorest that he would leave her untold sums when he died. He regretted that he could not take his money with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top-floor Tragedy* | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

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