Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Smith was present in cap & gown to see his good friend honored. Said he: "I am a F. F. M. man-Fulton Fish Market...
...activities begin at 8.45 o'clock, when the Seniors will assemble in front of Holworthy Hall and march, in cap and gown to Appleton Chapel where Dr. Alfred Worcester '78 will conduct the services. The members of the graduating class will then have over an hour of free time before they must assemble again in front of Holworthy Hall, this time to march to Sanders Theatre, where the exercises provide the climax to the morning's procedure...
...evidence in the hands of the Monitor, it is shown that University Extension work has increased in all its dimensions of late, until this octopus of education has in its grip the stray minutes of the workman's day. Brawn bows politely to Brain, overalls give way to gown, the proletariat educates itself, and the Monitor is happy. All's right with the world while the great god Statistics holds sway, and the Janus of these days smiles with equal radiance in both directions...
...Green Hat), of London; to Countess Atalanta Mercati; 22, daughter of Count Alexandre Mercati, former Chamberlain of the Court of Greece; at the Greek Orthodox Church, Cannes, France. During the elaborate ritual in which the bride relinquished her title for the official name of Mrs. Dikran Kuumjian, her gown caught fire from a burning ikon, was quickly extinguished. Only one prominent citizen of Cannes was absent: Mayor Andre Capron, 76, ill of shock suffered when a demented woman fired at him the morning of the ceremony...
...leaving the category of the one-part show. When Lorenzo has flown with Jessica and the old man knocks at the door of his house, there is no crescendo from wonder to premonition to fear to sorrow, no last, wild "Jessica!" He waits, one hand in his old brown gown, even drifts into reverie. He knocks again, no louder. As his knuckles strike, the curtain slowly falls...