Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oxford "bags" - trousers wide enough to hide effectively knocked knees, bowed legs and other nether malformations, and of colors gorgeous enough to shame a rainbow-were banned by the Provost of Eton, who stipulated that 20 inches round the ankle must be the maximum width...
...POOR NUT- An artless tale of undergraduate days wherein the Phi Beta Kappa man turns out to be a gorgeous athlete...
...said: "Do let's dance; you are the best dancer in the American Army." We dressed the degree people up in scarlet gowns and velvet hats, and all went down in cars; Wanda had a seat with me. It was really a wonderful sight. Lord Curzon was gorgeous. The Prince did not come, but the degree was given in absentia. Pershing had a splendid reception, as did Mr. Hoover; but Haig was the hero, I never heard such a racket. Joffre looks old and sad; worn out, I fancy...
...were terrible in a recent number; one story told of a "riot of gorgeous color." Please look to the Coast, San Francisco, once in a while...
From a bulletin distributed to the press, last week: "The hotel industry of America came into its own, educationally . . . when eight students in the Cornell hotel course received their degrees. . . . The gorgeous spectacle, new to the hotel profession, filled with pride the hearts of hotel representatives present as they saw the dreams of years come to realization...