Word: gerrish
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...doors on the first level and no men were allowed above the first floor. Gentlemen callers were announced by telephone upstairs (there was one telephone on each floor). When women entertained men in the dormitory, the rule was that ladies kept both feet on the floor when seated. Miss Gerrish was the housemother in Cabot Hall where I lived and, as I look back, she resembled then what I resemble today, an old lady in need of oiling...