Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persecution complex; about monthly he rouses his family in the night, bundles them up, poises for flight, then goes back to bed. Lucy's woe is his lost estates; he finally hangs himself, arrayed in Aunt Teresa's silk underwear, stockings and boudoir cap. Georges' is the stink that Beastly makes shaving; Beastly has a tender skin and has to burn his beard off. Aunt Teresa's is her health and the death of her son Anatole, court-martialed in France...
Knowing well that his time would be much occupied when he reached home, Mr. Amundsen soon went below to continue answering a multitude of messages congratulating him upon his safe return from the grip of the north polar ice cap (TIME, June 29). Also he slogged at a book describing his experiences...
...College (Marietta .Ohio) was visited by Vice President Charles G. Dawes, '84, and by Byron Bancroft Johnson, President of the American Baseball League. Crowds cheered as Mr. Johnson received an honorary A.B. degree, allegedly so flustering the proud recipient that he had difficulty in readjusting the unfamiliar academic cap as he retreated to his chair...
...flopping, swishing, blinding, neck-tickling cap-tassel that is meant to depend over the left temple is uniformly black for bachelors and masters, golden for doctors...
...labelling in degrees conferred on women. After four years spent in tireless pursuit of an education, the sweet girl graduate proves to have done mere man's work, instead of getting herself ready for the great jumping-off place of marriage. There is nothing distinctive about it--for even cap and gown are similar to those worn...