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