Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council meeting in the City Hall last night, property holders near Colonial Way voiced considerable objection to the University's petition to close the street that divides almost in half a plot of land bordering on Memorial Drive on which one of the new House units is to be erected...
...Somerset Maugham's short story, a successful legitimate play last year, about the temptations of white people in Singapore. Best shot: A battle between a mongoose and a cobra. (Originally released by Ufa as a short feature this interjection was bought by Paramount and spliced into the plot for atmosphere...
...horsecar. Myron C. Fagan, who wrote it, either is kidding the public or he is kidding himself. If he meant it seriously, it's terrible. If he dashed it off with his tongue in his cheek it's very good. There hasn't been so much plot in one place since East Lynne. It all begins in Venice with a clandestine love affair. Then comes the villain to take the hero back to his dying father. Eighteen years and a good deal of dirty work pass. The hero has married the railroad king's daughter...
...plan which was finally accepted calls for the completion of the Houses by the fall of 1930; one on a plot of land north of Gore Hall and bounded by Plympton, Mt. Auburn, and Holyoke Streets; the other on a triangular lot adjoining Memorial Drive just east of McKinlock Hall. In the case of the former, however, it was advisable to alter Holyoke Street at the southern end, where there is an awkward bend in it; while the construction of the second House would be hampered, if not prevented, by Colonial Way, which cuts the triangular lot into halves...
...same time President Lowell requested that Jarvis Street, which runs between the Law School and Jarvis Field, also be closed. Reference was likewise made to the exchange of the city's rights to Holmes Place, in front of the Law School, for the triangular plot between Broadway and Cambridge Street, where a fire station is to be built. This latter matter is now in the law courts and will be concluded as soon as the titles are investigated and changed