Word: charabanc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frock-coats and waistcoats with pearl buttons. Seniors rig themselves on Derby Day in the clownish regalia of sailors, goat-bearded farmers, raffish monks or intoxicated nuns. When, four years ago, this mood of conviviality caused an undergraduate to establish a bar in the bottom of a two-story charabanc, efforts were made to modify the diversions of Yale's Derby Day. It remained, last week, the chief holiday week-end of New Haven's spring. A quota of canoes, rocked by apparently inebriate paddlers, capsized above the dam. Presumably due to Depression, only half the seats were...
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