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...rest period either made Toronto lethargic or inspired the Harvard forces to do great things because the Crimson went on a scoring spree the like of which has not been seen in a Harvard game for some time. Inside of exactly four minutes and eight seconds Harvard had tallied four times, surprising the whole Toronto team, Ames in particular, and the spectators alike...
Statements by politicians and others that the drunks were hoodlums who attached themselves to the Legionnaires are too ridiculous for words. Everyone who knows anything is aware that this and most conventions are primarily the excuse for a grand spree away from the restraining influence of one's family and neighbors. F. T. Armstrong. Katonah...
...last of the trio to die, confesses to a shooting with which Lige was charged and advises Lige to leave the plains while he may. But Lige stays the winter with the Crees. After a trip southward and a disillusionment with civilization, by way of two robberies and a spree, he goes back to the Marias again, where there is more sky and a sweet Cree girl awaiting him. What lifts it out of the genre of Western stories is the sketching of the old Indian-surrounded life, especially the portraiture of northern Indians. Even if the girl Bluebird waxes...
...Three years ago Il Duce resolved to become reticent, publicly announced his resolution (TIME, June 6, 1927), and has kept it with superhuman willpower. No longer does the Peace of Europe tremble every fortnight at his roar. Last week, however, the Dictator permitted himself a sort of spree, dashed at breakneck speed around Tuscany in his bellowing Alpha Romeo, fought a fencing match at Lucca, kissed on both cheeks his adversary General Romeo Lunghera. commander of the local officers training school, and finally descended like Jupiter or Mars upon Florence, wildly cheered by 100,000 black shirts. This...
With the House on a spending spree in the face of President Hoover's warnings, long-range Treasury economists privately predicted that the 1% income tax cut allowed this year would not be renewed...