Word: dress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta police department ordered department stores to draw their show-window shades when putting new costumes on dress dummies...
...jayvee football team will accompany the Varsity westward on Friday, for a game against Army's second string. This will make a total of 72 players that will be on tap for Saturday's Varsity encounter, and Art Valpey is planning to dress several men for both games...
...green rookie, to outshine Vince and the other Seals. In his first full season (1933) he smashed the Pacific Coast League record by hitting safely in 61 consecutive games. He struck up a friendship with the team's first baseman, a fancy dresser and wisecracker, aped his dress and manners. From the Seals' trainer, an oldtime featherweight boxer, he soaked up fancy words. For a while, his stock reply to anyone asking him where he had been was: "Oh, I've been nonchalantly meandering down the pike...
...given his name instead. In 1900, Barnard College was officially declared the undergraduate college for women of Columbia University. It maintains its own faculty, and remains completely independent of Columbia College It has, however, a tradition reminiscent of Columbia's Freshman--Sophomore Rush, except that at Barnard they dress it up a bit and call it the Greek Games. The Greek Games consist of chariot races--one girl pulling, another wielding the whip and other Grecoid divertisements. The Games are reputed to be an even finer spectacle than the Wellesley Hoop Race...
Henry Lamar wasn't kidding when he predicted a big turnout for his opening Freshman football practice. He was greeted by over a hundred prospective squad members who turned out for the first full-dress session yesterday...