Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degrees conferred on women. After four years spent in tireless pursuit of an education, the sweet girl graduate proves to have done mere man's work, instead of getting herself ready for the great jumping-off place of marriage. There is nothing distinctive about it--for even cap and gown are similar to those worn...
...bemedaled and bedecorated. The ladies, in a riot of gorgeous color, provided a spectacle more brilliant than any witnessed since 1914. At 9:30 o'clock in the evening, the King, in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Life Guards, and the Queen, draped in a gown of silver tissue, entered the Throne Room. The band struck up God Save the King. Their Majesties stopped; upon the conclusion of the anthem, His Majesty made a curt nod of acknowledgment and took his place with the Queen upon the throne dais. Members of the Royal Family and numerous...
However, everyone must have cap and gown for the class picture which will be taken on Thursday, April 30, at 1 o'clock. 1925 Class Officers...
...Goodwin would have it that the leniency of the courts is responsible for the severity of the speed. But for this terrifying attempt on undergraduate life, there must surely be other contributing reasons, however occult. Perhaps it is a new expression of the old antipathy between Town and Gown. There is also the hypothesis that the vicious driver, instead of being a psychopathic case, is a convert to Fundamentalism trying like a Mussulman to roar up to Heaven with the life of a Modernist for registration, license, and gate pass. Whatever the explanation, the humor of the situation is rapidly...
...discovery opens vast commercial possibilities, now that the fashions dictated by the regime of King Tut are on the decline. Think of the possibilities of genuine Punic buttons on Mi-lady's newest gown. Then, too, the discovery is not without historical value. One can now be practically certain that women did exist at the time of Salamnbz, and that the advent of the bob post-dated that era. The special cable to the New York Times stated that the "importance of such a discovery is evident." The most evident thing about it all is that if Count de Prorok...