Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee in charge has provided a generous supply of paraphernalia, and the price will no more than cover expenses. To make the parade a success it is absolutely essential that men should forego other engagements for Wednesday evening to march with their classes to the Stadium...
...eighteen months' trip to the headwaters of the Rio Negro, in Colombia, has presented the Peabody Museum a valuable collection of ethnological material which he obtained from the natives of the region around the upper Uaupes River. The collection includes dance costumes, feather headdresses, rattles, whistles, drums and other paraphernalia used in their dances and ceremonies, blow guns with poisoned arrows, ordinary bows and arrows, ceremonial staffs used for carrying the head of the enemy, and various household objects such as wooden seats, hammocks, baskets...
...Gymnasium, where frequently a team monopolizes most of the floor space. The showers and lockers are absurdly antique, but one of the most crying needs in the way of equipment is a swimming pool. A new gymnasium embodying the three improvements just suggested and containing the usual paraphernalia together with increased floor space and a suitable trophy room is one of the greatest needs of the 3742 men here at Harvard...
...chamber without bowing before the speaker's chair is unheard of. But many of the irrevocable customs, ridiculous as they may seem to one who does not understand their meaning, were, at the time of their institution, founded on necessary circumstances, and therefore worthy of respect. In the paraphernalia, customs, and associations of Westminster Abbey, historic past and actual present are strangely mingled...
...York, have recently been received at the Peabody Museum. One of these, comprising pre-historic implements used in the preparation of food from corn, includes mortars, pestles, elm-bark dishes, corn-husk baskets, and ladles and spoons of wood. The other is a collection of the sacred paraphernalia, of a band of the Seneca tribe, which was worn in their sacred dances and ceremonies. It includes wooden and corn-husk masks, rattles of turtle shell and bark, and sacred tobacco...