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Word: dress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Bacchanalian tendencies of dress or undress, what custom of venturing forth in airy raiment is throttled by the following rule remains a asrtorial secret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN AT YALE TROD PATH OF THORNS IN 1787 | 11/20/1926 | See Source »

Scotchmen, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Jews, Gentiles, Mormons, Spaniards, Venetians, Egyptians, every nation who has a distinctive dress (excepting the sophomores) were portrayed...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/19/1926 | See Source »

...further feeling among certain Harvard men that Princeton places chief emphasis upon uniformity of type and manner of dress, that she places a low rank upon things of the mind, that her outlook is immature and provincial, that membership in the Big Three is Princeton's chief claim to glory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Lampoon Affair" Ibis Explains; the Prince Comments One Suggestion | 11/10/1926 | See Source »

...maintain with absolute conviction that no loyal Princeton man would tolerate the sacrifice of sportmanship to athletic victories, further I contend that Princeton could not allow her devotion to scholarship to be subordinated to externals of habit, dress, and thought. I know Harvard men well enough to say that they are gentlemen and are opposed to discourtesy whether in the form of conceit or mistaken loyalty. In other words I believe that the present friction is the result of misunderstanding, misrepresentation and prejudice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Lampoon Affair" Ibis Explains; the Prince Comments One Suggestion | 11/10/1926 | See Source »

...Pope are very rare. His Holiness presented the bride with four artistic bookcases, each containing 25 volumes, which he had selected himself, pertaining to the duties of a Christian wife and mother. After the nuptials, His Holiness delivered an address, in which he deplored modern laxity in customs and dress. The newly married pair and a few special guests were then invited to a family luncheon with His Holiness, at which the Pontiff sat at a separate table elevated above the rest of the party. The menu included galatine of pheasant, cakes with the papal colors, and Capri wine, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Busy Pontiff | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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