Word: gauntlet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drinking and its unfortunate results are sanctioned and even encouraged by those managing the initiations. Women students* are regularly seen in the Yard [main campus] and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances, bawdy ballads and obscene recitations in order to attend their lectures. . . . A passerby on Quincy street was embarrassed by public aspersion on his virility. . . ." Until five years ago, when Hasty Pudding merged with the Institute of 1770 (eating club), Hasty Pudding conducted its rituals, like most other...
...display or drinking and its unfortunate results are sanctioned and even encouraged by those managing the initiations. Women students are regularly seen in the Yard and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances, bawdy ballads, and obscene recitations in order to attend their lectures...
...open season at the Court of St. James once more fills the columns of the society page as the flower of democracy runs the gauntlet of diplomacy, privilege and connection to reach the end in view. Journalists "view with alarm" the costly pilgrimmage and tales run rife of the "inside path" to the Mecca of upper crust...
...Senate was agitating publicity for tax refunds in the first deficiency bill.* Charges had been made that Mr. Mellon's department had secretly doled out large sums in the dark to a favored few. Mr. Mellon wrote to Senator Warren, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, reviewing the "gauntlet" which tax refund claims had to run in the treasury. Said the Secretary...
...Baby (a thuglike gob clutching a gallon bottle of milk and an electrified wand). A royal bootlegger administered a stoup of vinegar & pepper from a whiskey bottle. Then Son Allan was lathered with lampblack, shaved with a wooden razor, dumped into a tank of water and beaten down a gauntlet with cotton clubs...