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...staff of the Radcliffe News, I got a coveted press pass to hear Winston Churchill speak in the Yard and then receive an honorary degree in Sanders Theatre on September 6, 1943. Churchill wore a grey suit with a black bow tie, Oxford hat and a red academic gown which draped around him like a kimono. The academic ceremony pulled out all stops, from the magnificent sheriff of Middlesex County to then-president James B. Conant '14 awarding the degree in his nasal voice: "by virtue of the authority delegated...
...million Russian homes, a fabricated plea from Stacy Edwards urges voters to choose Yeltsin over the Communists. Edwards plays Holly on Santa Barbara, an American soap opera widely watched on Russian television. Inside, a full-page color photo portraying Zyuganov has been retouched to show him in a surgical gown, holding a sickle poised to slice into two eggs. In Russian the word for eggs is also slang for testicles...
...cylinder made visible as the elevator door exploded outward, showering sparks and embers on all in the room, setting fires on the green felt of the pool tables, and hurling into the air blazing splinters and sticks, one of which pierced the breast of Katrina and instantly set her gown aflame...
...think I ever saw him walking with anybody. I don't think he was ever in any of my classes. I do think I remember seeing him in his cap and gown. But I'm not sure he had anyone there with him. I was not surprised at all that he had holed himself up in Montana," McIntosh continues...
Saturday's event was a kimono reading, which was followed by an invitation to visitors to try on the both an informal kimono and a traditional Japanese wedding gown. They then received Polaroid photos of the themselves in the outfits...