Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college ruling of 1655 declared that "neither shall it bee lawful for any student to weare long haire, Locks or foretops, nor...to use Curling, Crisping, parting or powdering their haire...
...rate opponents, such able teams as Duquesne, Catholic University and Springfield. The L. I. U. basketball squad consists of eight men, most of whom have played together for three years. None has a scholarship. The coach, who also teaches accounting, is a Trenton, N. J. War veteran named Claire Bee...
...City's basketball favorite. A crowd of 13,000 gathered there to watch the Long Islanders play a team far more publicized than their earlier opponents: Rice Institute, co-champion of the strong Southwestern Conference, whose regulars are all over six feet tall. Day of the game, Coach Bee shamefacedly announced that all his men had lost their uniforms. Amused Rice players courteously offered to lend some of theirs. When the game started, L. I. U. smartly boxed Rice's 6 ½ ft. centre, ran up a score of 27-to-10 at the half, won the game...
Another college law of 1655 unearthed by Professor Morison forbids the wearing of long hair by students. The statute reads: ". . . neither shall it bee lawful for any to weare long haire, Locks or foretopps, nor . . . to use Curling, Crisping, parting or powdering their haire." It seems that the adoption of flowing coiffures by Harvard scholars had demoralized the citizenry to such an extent that even preachers in the local pulpits were affecting the fad, "to the great greife and offense of many godly hearts in the country...
When Mrs. Hoe took the family troubles to a sympathetic newspaperwoman, whose job it was to put the bee of budget-keeping in her readers' bonnets, she got good advice free, paid by not taking it. Then unsympathetic reality began to crack down. Dallas flunked out of high school, wasted a lot of time trying to win a $10,000-prize competition, settled unwillingly to a job as chauffeur to his best girl's father. Sythia's grandmother sacrificed part of her funeral money to divert the "career" into a more appropriate job in a beauty parlor...