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...have an example of euxpetitiousness? My roommate was going to a formal and he didn't have a cummerbund. So we made a bet that if I could make him a cummerbund, then he would have to wear it. So I made him a cummerbund out of the Leverett House JCR curtains. He wore it. That was a euxpetitious use of material...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: Profile: who is that masked man? | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...Tuesday morning he appeared before a packed news conference at Moscow's posh Slavyanskaya Hotel, clad in black tuxedo, paisley cummerbund and bow tie. Asked about how his much publicized anti-Semitic remarks square with reports that his father was Jewish, he said he envies Jews because they are "the richest nation in the world." Then he reaffirmed one of his pet projects: replacing Moscow's Jewish television announcers with blue-eyed Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Farce to Be Reckoned With | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...Glove Apparel, a California outfit, says its line is "cut for the Midwestern frame," and Sandcastle is doing well with a collection intended to "minimize common figure problems like heavy thighs, tummy bulge and wide hips." A Gottex suit that covers up lower-abdomen paunch with a strategically placed cummerbund has drawn more than 15,000 orders through the Spiegel catalog alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Back From The Bikini Brink | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

...Tuxes. For the finest inevening wear, Santa picks a 100 percent worstedtropical wool tuxedo with shawl collar for $315,holiday season red bowtie and cummerbund for$38.50 at The Crimson Shop (16 Dunster...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...nose across Weeks Bridge, you automatically get tenure." Most of the administrators were watching "Porky's" on the VCR's, and throwing hors d'ouerves at the screen. The few undergraduates present were massaging the feet of the rest of University Hall. I lifted some caviar and a forgotten cummerbund, found my date and rejoined the real party...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Dazed and Confused | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

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