Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleep." The lavatories had no locks. Even solitary walks were forbidden. Yet there "one met for the first time characters, adult and adolescent, who bore about them the genuine quality of evil. There was Collifax, who practiced torments with dividers; Mr. Cranden with three grim chins, a dusty gown, a kind of demoniac sensuality; from these heights evil declined toward Parlow, whose desk was filled with minute photographs-advertisements of art photos. Hell lay about them in their infancy...
...that half-forgotten art, the quick change. He leaves the footlights as Captain Universe, a panicky Superman who wears an aerial on his head, slips out through the curtain again as a clown, dives back to reappear almost instantly as a cross-eyed gaucho, and then-encased in a gown which is snapped around him by a body-hugging steel spring-dodders into view as Queen Victoria...
...hidden beauty that must be sought for. Cambridge is a delightful country town . . . Oxford bears the unmistakable marks of a modern industrial city ... Industrialization has forced the university to retreat into itself and so be saved from city inundation. College loyalties are thereby strengthened, but between town and gown there is a severance and a tension that Cambridge has never known...
...matter of fact, Suave may be sitting next to you in the audience. You will recognize him by his fantastically colorful cap and gown--even though he is only a graduating senior. If you ask him he will tell you that it is for a little degree he picked up the summer he spent in Florence. "They simply forced it on me," he will say, "though personally I can't bear that touch of puce on the inner fold...
...matter of fact, Suave may be sitting next to you in the audience. You will recognize him by his fantastically colorful cap and gown--even though he is only a graduating senior. If you ask him he will tell you that it is for a little degree he picked up the summer he spent in Florence. "They simply forced it on me," he will say, "though personally I can't bear that touch of puce on the inner fold...