Word: impedimenta
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...Lloyd '28, who is in charge of the drive, attributed the scarcity of the sartorial crop to local interest in the football season. It is supposed that many undergraduates were saving old hats and kindred impedimenta for the prosecution of the touchball season and for the finish of the New Haven encounter. Now that the Yale game is over, the economy program should be relaxed and the 125 canvassers on the Phillips Brooks field force will be launched anew with higher hopes for success...
...addition to the men who have already gone on to receive and handle this vast store of impedimenta, a second contingent of managers left last night to have the New Haven dressing room ready for occupancy when the team arrives. And after the game, when the players are celebrating the breaking of training, and the University as a whole is finding it hard to settle down, these managers will have to collect and bring back to camp all the remains...
...basketball player, Phi Beta Kappa, of Rutgers College, more recently famed concert singer, enacts the role of the black boy. The white man's ways force him into the fight game. Swiftly the hungry straggler mounts to world championship, hangers-on, Fierce-Arrows, booze, kotowing, all the tinseled impedimenta. After two years of demoralizing opulence, double-crossed by his manager, disillusioned by the discovery that his idolized Irene is tinged with black blood like his own, he forsakes the devious paths of Harlem, seeks out the sunny slopes of California, wanders away again, a singing hobo...
Unfortunately laws are too easily made, and statute books become yearly heavier with useless impedimenta. Perhaps a prohibitive fee could be charged for initiating legislation. But, until some such brake can be attached to law-making machinery of the future, a clarification of its past products will be of inestimable value--both to students, to politicians, to judges, and, perhaps, to the defendants themselves...
...ability will reap him a more speedy and direct compensation. On the other hand, the political apprenticeship of the Englishman is of short duration. He serves first in the borough council, and immediately afterwards is eligible to the House of Commons. There are no tedious waits or petty impedimenta. Yet another advantage is that the M.P. does not need to be a resident of the borough electing him, whereas the American is often barred from participation in politics by his location-a Republican in South-Carolina,-for-instance, standing little chance of holding major office in that thoroughly Democratic state...