Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their annual $525,000,000 business directly from weddings, have been having a heyday. Wholesale wedding ring sales alone were up some 300% for the first three months of the year. Lingerie and wedding-gown makers call the past and present seasons the "most hectic" they have ever known. Formal bridal gown sales, up 250% last year, continue to equal 1941 records. Lingerie merchants, who usually save black lace garments for Christmas sale to men for women, found themselves sold out of their "get-your-man-underwear" last summer-prospective brides bought it for themselves...
...deliberate intent" to sink a Chilean ship, explained: "Inasmuch as the ship was proceeding without lights . . . the submarine could not know under what flag the Tolten was navigating." While the Chilean Government drafted a note protesting to the U.S. for the fatal order to extinguish lights, reportedly serving formal notice that Chilean ships would under no circumstances run blacked out, Ambassador Rodolfo Michels Cavero in Washington demanded another ship to rush to Chile the badly needed cargo which awaited the Tolten in New York. His demand was granted...
Peddie will find an outfit which needs a bit of molding after vacation, when the linksters will commence formal practice on their home course, the Belmont Country Club. Three men were lost by graduation last June...
Aside from the annual tourney at Worcester on April 24, in which two squads out of six will emerge from a 36-hole medal play competition, six formal matches are slated for the Crimson. Brown opens the season on April 18 on the home course and M. I. T. provides the opposition here on April...
...tradition side, the Bellboys can enumerate among their distinctions formal Monday night dinners, ringing of the Russian bells one Sunday morning a month, an annual opera and a birthday party for President-emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell...