Word: dress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...females in the University dress carefully, if casually. One observer described them as "plainly attractive although not striking" and that seemed a pretty fair generalization...
...left Roxbury that day, and made his way over to Harvard Square and Max Keezer's used clothing store. The next time he was seen at Whalen's Place, Curley sported full evening dress--cutaway and striped pants. Shabby though it may have been in a few places, his Harvard cutaway helped Curley make a name for himself. He wore it in campaigns for thirteen years until he was elected to Congress in 1911. Then Curley gave the suit away to a cousin who, in due time, he saw waked...
Most of the police's trouble comes from ultra-realistic club initiations and practical jokes. During the War, one club had a students dress up at Lowell House as the enemy. A night watchman recalled the incident. "He was up in the bell tower in a Nazi uniform, giving the salute and shouting around." One of the night watchmen still believes that he was a German spy and is still in prison...
...Elis will have to play today with- out their inside right, Alex Ercklentz, who has a broken bone in his right wrist and will not even dress for the game. Chris Wadley is expected to start in his place. Gene Scott, Yale's high scorer with seven goals, will open at center forward, with John Pearce at the other inside. Jim Sampliner, the Elis' fine outside right, will also start, along with Brian Johnson on the left...
...Roncalli brothers. Zaverio, 75, Alfredo, 69, and Giuseppe, 64, were having supper after a hard day's work when the big news came over their old radio. The rice soup grew cold while they listened; then as excited neighbors poured from their houses, the brothers hurried upstairs to dress up for the occasion. And in Sesto San Giovanni, a little town near Milan, Angelo Roncalli's sister Assunta was out buying bread when the news reached her. "My God, little Angelo!" she gasped. "What's the matter?" asked the baker, and Assunta explained: "My brother...