Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Glee and Banjo Club has just returned from a most successful holiday season, having played to crowded and delighted houses in the leading western cities. The organization numbers forty members, and traveled in grand style, accompanied by two colored porters in livery, and all the other paraphernalia of a first class successful musical combination.- Exeter Gazette...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The gymnasium may be a good place to increase the muscle, but that physical gain will hardly compensate for the loss in towels, soap, and other paraphernalia necessary for gymnasium work, which some poor individual seems to be continually suffering. I am one of the several miserable wretches who, thinking that the crossbars above the lockers in the lower part of the building are especially intended as the proper place wheron to hang towels, had the misfortune to hang mine there. I had the use of it for about three days, when it mysteriously disappeared. Thinking that...
...Harvard Club had a rousing house-warming Thursday night at its club house at No. 11 West Twenty-second street. The building is a four-story brown-stone front, elegantly fitted up for the club, with sleeping apartments, billiard room, library and all the paraphernalia of a first-class club-house. It is the first home the club has ever had in the twenty-two years of its existence...
...after some very comic stage business exits. A second scene shows us the interior of a puritan drawing-room, inhabited by cats. Enter Dorothy and Pricilla who sing a nursery hymn very effectively, accompanying it with a very gracefully danced step. Suddenly two reservation Indians in all the paraphernalia of their lucrative profession burst in upon them and carry them off. Next Harvard and Dame Daffodill appear and discover that fact, and the scene changes to where the maidens are waiting instant death tied to a rickety stake. The braves vanish for a moment, and their victims take the opportunity...
...assessment of seventy-five cents for six hundred students will provide all the necessary paraphernalia, torches, &c, including the Boston Cadet Band...