Word: brands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer it: the college would first force these men "to wear hats and caps of the same style, suits and overcoats of the same cut, collars, ties, hosiery, shoes of the same pattern," then ostracize them until they were "out" for a team, a glee club, a publication, even brand them as "queer" until they thought like and acted like everybody else, and finally teach them in remaining leisure to dine elegantly, dance gracefully, and bridge skillfully...
...evident that the worthy dean has reversed his sense. Business English is good English--of a kind. But in his zeal for his special brand, he must leave to doddering academicians their favorites also, for the "Kick" of today is nonsense tomorrow...
...Harvard Freshman hockey team displayed an excellent brand of hockey Saturday afternoon in defeating a strong Kent School sextet 5 to 2 at the Arena. Superior teamwork on the part of the Freshman skaters overcame the individual brilliance of the schoolboys...
...University game was hard and fast. Despite the absence of Captain Kent the Crimson riders displayed a brand of polo that could have vanquished any less experienced trio than the 103rd. Pinkerton, scoring four of Harvard's goals was bettered only by Beresford of the Providence team who made five of his team's scores...
...Philip, Max and Joseph, little Joseph. They lived in a shoe on Mott Street, Manhattan. 'Nearby, Lew Schanfield tended a street soda-fountain for a man named Gump. One night. Fields taught Weber a dance step he knew. Another night, the little lights on the facade of a brand-new music hall pricked out a trade-name that had become a tradition: WEBER AND FIELDS. They owned the place...