Word: chaperones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third significant date is September 22, when the Coal (Fact Finding) Commission, created by Congress, goes out of existence. During its period of office the Commission has acted as a sort of chaperon for both workers and operators. Both sides have feared to be too unreasonable with the stern eye of the Commission over them. But what will happen when the chaperon goes home? That is a question which only the future will reveal...
Those who read all their little pamphlets faithfully have noticed that the parietal regulations are becoming stricter. There was formerly a well known rule which said, "No young women unattended by an older woman as chaperon SHOULD be received in a student's room." This year the corresponding rule reads, "No young women unattended by an older woman as chaperon MAY be received in a student's room...