Word: maroons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Bitterly righteous was the wrath last week of Editor John P. Barden of the University ot Chicago's Daily Maroon. Accusing the Chicago Tribune of "unethical journalism," of "deliberate misuse of the freedom of the press," of bad taste, folly and falsehood, he said that the "world's greatest newspaper" could not be called a newspaper at all, but only "Colonel Gump McCormick's daily indignation was expression an of opinion...
...Conference, not action, has characterized the merger proceedings," reported Maroon's Editor Barden, adding...
First came the troops, their uniforms a martial palette. Militiamen in grey & white from the "Old Seventh" Regiment; the jist Infantry in blue & white; the 102nd Engineers in scarlet; the 102nd Medical Unit in maroon; the "Old Sixty-Ninth" in blue with green facings; the "Washington Grays" in grey with flashing sabres. Cheerful CCC workers livened their olive drab uniforms with sprigs of hemlock in their caps. Their banner announced: "We Do Our Part For The NRA; We Work In The Woods...