Word: chaperone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...
After her first year in New York, Tallulah persuaded her father that she could get along without her chaperon, Aunt Louise. "I couldn't stand Aunt Louise's snoring," she says. "I told Daddy: 'If you believe the things people say about me, I'll believe the things your political enemies say about...
Revived on Broadway eight years ago with José Ferrer, the horseplay about an Oxford student who impersonates his aunt from Brazil so that a lunch party will have a chaperon was mostly fun because it was magnificently frenzied: farce is among the few things with the right to advocate violence. The new version not only has music that is pretty poor, but, as a way of halting the high jinks, every tune might as well be Lead, Kindly Light...
...president of the 'Cliffe Student Government, stated that if House hours were pushed up from the usual time of 7 o'clock, Radcliffe might formulate a set of rules for College Houses based on Articles VI of the Rules for the Halls of Residence, which ordinarily requires a chaperon to accompany a student to a man's residence. No chaperonage in the Houses is required under the present visiting hours...
Possibly the University feels that Yard dwellers are too young to be put on their own in the great social game. The chaperon system may be just a fatherly device to protect inexperienced youths from the clutches of unscrupulous females. If that is the case, it seems strange indeed that House residents should be so completely cast adrift on the seas of passion, sustained only by sign-in registers and curfews...