Word: marshalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throughout the nation, sealed up unsold stocks and piled almost 9,000 opium pipes, many of ivory and rare mandarin wood, in front of Bangkok's Grand Palace. Drenched with gasoline and set afire, the blaze was watched by thousands until dawn. Boasted Thailand's boss. Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, who has also closed down nightclubs, "massage parlors" and brothels: "From this day we can proudly claim that we are a civilized people. Gone will be those trying days when we were pilloried by the foreign press, which printed squalid pictures of opium addicts...
Britain's immaculate Tailor and Cutter Magazine surveyed the international scene, issued a list of the world's best-dressed males. Among them: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito ("the ritziest looking dictator in the world"), Richard Nixon ("a neat line between the wigwag shapes of U.S. drape and the ludicrously tight togs of U.S. Ivy Leaguers"), durable Hoofer Fred Astaire ("one of the few Americans who can wear a suit of tails"), Cinemactor Rex Harrison ("the best British answer to the Italian look"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("British taste and American imagination"), Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian...
Alumni will reconvene at the Tercentenary Theatre at 1:30 P.M. for the 119th annual meeting of the Alumni Association, when Theodore Chase, Chief Marshal of the Class of 1934, will present the class gift to the College, and the results of elections for the Board of Overseers and other alumni offices will be announced...
University Marshal J. Hampden Robb '21 will officially open the program with the traditional words to the High Sheriff of Middlesex County, "Mr. Sheriff, pray us order." Howard W. Fitzpatrick, county sheriff, will strike the stage three times with his scabbard, saying, "The meeting will be in order...
Theodore Chase, Chief Marshal of the class of 1934, will present the record-breaking class gift to the College as a highlight of the afternoon ceremonies. The results of elections for the Board of Overseers and other alumni offices will also be announced...