Word: archways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the archway which faces Standish was a blue-clad youth, who directed the fair, bewildered guests and warded them off from entries in which they were not expected. Puzzled occupants who were not included gaped from open windows or stood in groups, eyeing each other with questioning glances as the ladies began to arrive. Perhaps it was fortunate that those invited came not in a body but in straggling numbers, for at the height of the merriment the capacity of the five suites was sorely taxed...
Yale Field is to be renamed Walter Camp Field. At the entrance to the fields, and directly in front of the Yale Bowl will be built an archway of brick and stone, 7 feet wide and 5 feet high. Over the arched entrance the inscription "Walter Camp Field" will be carved in stone...
Rehearsal. In London the return of Edward of Wales from his South American tour was preceded by a series of quaint yet vital doings. British Life Guards in full uniform and mounted on night-black charges cantered bravely to Victoria Station, wheeled through its gloomy archway, and drew up with a flashing salute before a strip of red carpet down which the Prince was not destined to march for another 24 hours...
...throng of women, some dressed in the best that Jay's and Liberty's could afford, others in the latest and most gorgeous and flimsy from Paris, began to enter under the imposing tower on St. Aldates into "Tom Quad," illuminated by hundreds of lanterns. Through the archway in the far, left-hand corner, out into the older part of the college toward the Meadows, familiar music greeted the visitors. In the great Dining Hall, none other than Vincent Lopez "and his band," hale and hearty from Yankee-doodledum, were forcing toes to jazz with his syncopated music...
...laughed, and drew me through the archway. . . . Beyond was a bedroom. By this time I had recovered myself...