Word: cocoon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Your poilu has burst his cocoon and stands glittering before the world--an Aspirant. He is proud of himself--and more at peace than ever before in his life...
...sooth, it is the beginning of the end. The cap and gown garb is a sort of cocoon from which the Senior will emerge as a very humble moth in June. But the cocoon days are happy ones, and rightly. The soberness of the robe signifies no corresponding gloom in the class; Nineteen-fourteen has not assumed black to mark its declining days. On the contrary, Nineteen-fourteen is just beginning to live. What with Junkets and picnics, and bright days and gay nights, cap and gown time will pass quickly and merrily. So, paraphrasing the advice given...