Word: fruitier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because they happen to occur among the rich and influential." The question, though it named no names, brought a prompt and unprecedented reply from Kensington Palace. The Duke of Kent, said a palace statement, was indeed at the parties referred to but was "in no way involved" in their fruitier moments...
Despite the liberalized parietal rules, Harvard remained essentially an all-masculine place throughout the thirties. You were still a "fruitier" if you took a date to a football game instead of sitting with the boys in the cheering section. Radcliffe was still a much-maligned institution whose students were worth nothing except A's in courses taught by Harvard Faculty members. But during the last war, when expediency brought "joint education" and inflation brought soaring prices for outside entertainment, the dam of the anti-feminists broke. House residents now entertained women guests in considerable numbers, and in 1946 the Masters...