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Newspaper
Richmond Collegian
Location
Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1920
Page
3
A poem personifies feet as overworked and mistreated by constant wear. The speaker laments tight shoes and painful arches while admitting fatigue and weariness, asking what is wrong with the feet that are kept neat yet cause pain and discomfort. The piece ends with a cyclical plea about the feet’ troubles.
A narrator jots a scattered diary of Al drifting from a summer spree toward work. He fears failure as alarm over missed letters and routine routines collide with a noisy social life and late hours. The piece blends personal strain with odd, humorous images of scrambled eggs and vaudeville rehearsals.
A sequence follows two people from first introduction at 7:15 to a parting at 10:00 with quick, intimate exchanges and a final note from the man about being a handsome devil. She records his name in a personal book, a sign of lingering affection amid casual flings.
Senior class guidance from Miss Locke insists on wearing caps and gowns at graduation day regardless of receipt. She emphasizes the importance of proper attire and personal responsibility for all graduates.
A lighthearted campus gathering likened to a football scrimmage drew large attention from upperclassmen as rat themed speeches unsettle the class of 1924. An overzealous nominee moved to close nominations prompting a quick adjournment with chants of rats out.
In a quirky exchange Miss Shaw notes the speaker across the lake is Honorable B Stockton an authority on cafeteria manners and projection of superficial attitude while a Senior asks about postgraduate study and a Freshman parallels family pressure. Mr Brown lectures on taxation and Buffalo Health Depart ment imposes taxes or fines for bath tub presence.
A weary speaker vents at length over a clogged phone line. The narrator rails at Langruid Lizzie and an overbearing supervisor, pleading for mercy as a comic cantata turns into a temper tantrum about rude operators and family chatter on the line.
A list of adjectives describes girls using terms such as dangerous clever charming alarming wistful and seductive. The text emphasizes varied traits and ends with the emphatic plural GIRLS.
A diner asks a waiter for a highball and jokes about city life overturning Prohibition. The exchange captures a witty contrast between dry country rules and urban nightlife referenced by Stanford Chaparral.
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