Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried the varsity to the Eastern League championship, although Yale's depth enabled the Elis to win the Big Three crown, capturing five of the six additional contests...
...decided the outcome of both the League and Big Three standings. By winning the first two, the Crimson gained a decisive League victory, but since the seventh, eighth, and ninth singles matches went to Yale, the Elis' victories in the last four doubles carried them to the Big Three crown...
...helped round up some 60 dissident Southerners. Minority Leader Joe Martin caucused the Republicans, kept them in line behind the Eisenhower version of the bill. As debate opened at midweek, Republican strength had become so obvious that Sam Rayburn gave up the battle and ducked off to Virginia to crown Her Majesty, the queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival...
...first event is the Interfraternity Sing. Forty percent of Brown's undergraduates belong to fraternities. The 17 houses on campus have been rehearsing for weeks, and urging the brothers to participate, so that they can take the crown away from Alpha Delta Phi, which has held it for a while...
...climax of sorts builds when Mrs. Halloran, feeling pretty good on the day before the scheduled holocaust, puts on a tiara ("My crown!") and throws a farewell bacchanal all over the lawn for the poor villagers. Fools, they don't know any better and go ahead and have a good time though not as good a time as Mrs. Halloran. What happens next day I had better not tell...