Word: lida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raimundo Lida, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, has been appointed to the Smith Professorship of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures...
Created under the will of Abiel Smith, who graduated from Harvard in the class of 1764, the Smith Professorship has been held by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, J. D. M. Ford, Jean-Joseph Seznec, Amado Alonso, Herbert Dieckmann and others. Lida's appointment will be effective July...
Italian sportswear, always ingenious, this year includes trimmings ranging from boa-like looped-wool fringe on suits (by Pierluigi Trico) and enormous pompons on after-ski capes (by Lily Liuba) to colored felt "scoubidou"-like tassels* on ski sweaters (by Lida di Trepuzzi). Centinaro, who calls her line "Penguin" (the pouch-backed shape), shows shiny black spaghetti-fringe collars and olive-green fur linings. Albertina's boutique features knit suits and coats made without cutting or seaming and guaranteed to be sagproof, and Roland-who must have seen The Wild One-spotlights a skintight, all-black leather ensemble...
...Denah Lida, wife of Raimundo Lida, professor of Romanco Languages, plans to study the 19th century Spanish novelist, Benito Perez Galdos. The fourth Faculty wife, Mrs. Brita K. Stendahl, wife of Krister Stendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, will write essays on contemporary Swedish literature...
...Right to Drown. By 1912 the suffrage movement was almost respectable, despite such zealots as Lida Stokes Adams, who demanded women's right to drown. The lifeboats of the Titanic, she insisted, should have been filled "with an equal number of men." A mammoth suffrage parade down Fifth Avenue, with Lillian Russell and 15,000 other marchers impressed the nation and won large-scale public sympathy. After that, bloomer-clad suffragettes paraded in front of the White House, pinned jonquils on the lapels of sympathetic Congressmen. Theo dore Roosevelt endorsed the cause, and in 1918 Woodrow Wilson surrendered, urged...