Word: crape
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procession consisted of a Grand Marshal, with a huge bearskin cap and baton, assistants with craped staves and torches; a coffin, six feet long, inscribed "Football, 1860," borne by four pall bearers: the Chaplain, with a very large craped that, and huge eye-glasses; the class, wearing invalied beavers inscribed "63," and having crape tied on the right leg. Behind the coffin were the gravestones made of wood, painted black, with the following inscription in white letters: (Headstone) HIC JACET FOOTBALL FIGHTUM AET LX YRS OBIIT, JULY 2, '60. RESURGAT (Footstone) FOOTBALL, 1860 IN MEMORLAM, (over a winged skull...
...coffin we hitherward hurried, And in crape we are decked, for proudly we dote...
...juicy as buttered asparagus with a recent rainfall, a circumstance which boded ill for Miss Wills. Both players wore spiked shoes, but before the first set was six games old, Miss Ryan was taking off her shoes. The gallery giggled. She tried on a pair with soles of crape rubber. They skidded. She tried on a pair borrowed from William M. Johnston. The gallery tittered again. Miss Ryan removed her footwear altogether, began to scuttle about the court in stocking feet. The score at that point was 4-2 in her favor in the first set, and Miss Wills...