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...year old freshman of Trinity College, has been suspended from the college for what the authorities call "a violation of rules regarding drinking." Discounting the indefinite phrasing of the charge, which might cover anything from sipping a cocktail to climaxing an evening of drunken driving, assault and battery, and window smashing by setting fire to the college chapel in a fit of alcoholic pique, O'Keefe's suspension brings into the limelight one of the most disturbing aspects of Prohibition as it relates to the American college...
...patient, patriotic crowd learned that "the King is examining congratulatory telegrams and cablegrams from all over the world"?this from an important, reliable equerry. Denser and denser grew the crowd, but with no ill-mannered clamor for Their Majesties to show themselves at a window...
...Chicago, Leslie Merion attached a fishhook to a stick, reached through a window, hooked a thousand dollar bond off a clerk's desk, was arrested...
...Brooklyn, John Edmonds walked into the Edwards Hotel clad in his underwear, demanded Room 313. Informed that it was occupied, he said: "It was, but it isn't now. I just fell out of the window...
...done so extensively as to tax the capacity of the house, and so make dancing even more like the preliminaries of wrestling than either fashion or comfort dictates. It also happens that when those who desire to enter unbidden are ardent males without escort they at times push in window sashes, glass and all, or break outer doors from their imitation handwrought hinges...