Word: marooning
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East 67th Street was roped off and two maroon Rolls-Royces were drawn up on the sidewalk in front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water...
...floor the same men that played in their last Harvard game, with Captain McDowell, who netted eleven points in that tilt at the pivot position. HARVARD COLUMBIA Merry, r.f. l.f., Tomb Ferriter, l.f. r.f., Asselin Boys, c. c., McDowell Henderson, r.g. l.g., Meisel Fletcher, l.g. r.g., Maroon...
...consider them. In the mezzanine were such exhibits as knickerslacks and directors' suits. In the Grand Ballroom were lively discussions of the color of waistcoats, the cut of coat tails. Haughtily ignoring the ready-to-wear industry which actually controls mass styles, the tailors recommended tuxedo vests of maroon and purple, claret and gold; opera capes of blue vicuna lined with scarlet and purple. The Fashion Committee was in favor of streamlining men's clothes: ". . . a stripe, for example, perpendicular through coat and trousers, but for the waistcoat navigating the torso horizontally. Pockets may trim their flaps back...
HARVARD COLUMBIA Morse, r.f. l.f., Tomb Merry, l.f. r.f., Asselin Boys, c. c., McDowell Fletcher, r.g. r.g., Meisel Ferriter, l.g. r.g., Maroon...
...Conference, not action, has characterized the merger proceedings," reported Maroon's Editor Barden, adding...