Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey topper, and started a fashion that slowly took hold. In 1791 there was a celebrated running of the Oatlands stakes at Ascot. Baronet, owned by the Prince of Wales (later George the Fourth), won the race after London had gone almost out of its collective mind over the event. An estimated ?500,000 changed hands in bets, and the Prince picked up ?17,000 in wagers...
Washington's National Press Club announced an important event last week: it had scheduled a private screening of Home of the Brave, Hollywood's first picture attacking anti-Negro prejudice (TIME, May 9). The Press Club urged members to "see this production [because it] has something important to say on one of the most important problems of our day." What the invitation did not need to say was that only whites will be welcome; the Press Club bars Negroes from its club rooms and from membership...
...snare men and write papers. Where this all led to nobody knew, or seemed to care--gone by the end of May, Radcliffe was always back in September and the faces seemed pretty much the same. Now it turns out that some graduate in the spring, and the event is not incredible...
There are other difficulties. The Harvard newshound faces what is probably the world's most sarcastic readership, which makes every hurried cliche the subject of many cruel barbs. A Saturday sporting event is easy, because the publication schedule of this journal allows for a leisurely and calculated write-up, but the occasion of a night hockey game can strain any man's regard for the English language...
Seniors donned their caps and gowns for the first time for this event, and marched in procession behind the class officers from Holworthy Hall through the Yard and into Memorial Church...