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Word: gowned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oxford worth it?" asked the university's undergraduate magazine. George Bernard Shaw replied: "Collegiate residence, common meals and cap & gown give a priceless social training in good manners which is shared with sailors only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

Looking scared, but still beautiful in a billowy white satin $1,200 wedding gown (a gift of M-G-M), Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor became the bride of Conrad Nicholson Hilton Jr., 23, son of the hotelman. A crowd of 600 people jammed the candlelit Beverly Hills Church of the Good Shepherd; 2,500 more lined the streets outside. The young folks (the bride had just recovered from a cold in her chest) left for a four-part honeymoon: a night in Santa Monica; a week in Carmel, Calif.; a week in Manhattan; three months in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 15, 1950 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

After this, we will certainly be entitled to change our uniform from cap and gown to cap and bells! John P. C. Train...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coca-Cola Bottling Plant | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...first number, the black-haired ecdysiast effects a white gown which can best be described as revealing. Against an artificial background of palm trees and jungle flora, Miss La Rose sings a song describing an ancient Hawaiian custom while passing out lcis to the fortunately-positioned occupants of box and front row seats. Miss La Rose's voice, her least attractive feature, is a sultry contralto. It serves the purpose, however...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 5/12/1950 | See Source »

...sandstone house on Manhattan's upper East Side, the door of a third-floor bedroom opened softly at 7:30 a.m. one day last week. Following a routine of many years' standing, a handsome, grey-haired man, clad in a maroon and navy dressing gown, reached into the hall to pick up the newspaper. Then Arthur Hays Sulzberger hopped back into bed to read his New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Without Fear or Favor | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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