Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uniform dress for all Freshmen will be white flannels and dark coats. The ushers will wear dinner jackets...
Perhaps you wonder why such solemn puerilities as I have described are not laughed out of countenance. You must remember that freedom of thought is a serious thing. If there be a grain of truth in a ton of dress, you accept the ton for the sake of the grain. For the world is a big place, and there is room for everybody, and each man has the inalienable right to be as eccentric as he pleases. It is my own conviction that the Why-nots are quite harmless. But think of the wasted energy...
...Coach Edward Massey '15, who is directing the Club's spring production of Dos Passos' "The Moon Is a Gong", announced last night that a noisy and well trained mob will be necessary to the action of the play. Those who wish to take part will attend the two dress rehearsals on May 10 and 11, and should report at the Dramatic Club offices at 69 Mt. Auburn Street at 7.30 this evening...
...Freetown, Sierra Leone, a dense crowd of Negroes, whose blackness was illuminated by a riot of colored dress, greeted the Prince. Many came arrayed in top hats and wedding clothes and were transported in Ford cars; big black mammies carried their toothless babes on their backs. Cries of "King Pikkin" (the King's Baby Son) welcomed the Prince as he read an address and distributed the King's medal...
Premier Edouard Herriot entered his residence at the Quai d'Orsay, donned his dress suit, left in the Prime Ministerial limousine for the Palais de I'Elysée, where he was joined by the other members of the Cabinet. Together they sought an interview ,with President Gaston Doumergue, presented their resignations. The President, in a three-minute speech, thanked Premier Herriot for his services to the Nation, accepted the resignations and made the usual request that the Cabinet would "carry on" until a successor was chosen. Premier Herriot, apparently happy, returned to the Quai d'Orsay...