Word: pom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone else wears white. The result of this folderol is a red S on a white background. Meanwhile the girls' section is com- Pletely equipped with pompoms. These are sticks with a lot of red and white confetti on the and, Whenever anything exciting happens, a mass of pom-poms waves madly in the air, and whenever the band plays, all the red and white confetti moves in time to the music...
British sailors in their stiff white duck hats, Frenchmen in their flat caps with red pom-poms and Dutchmen in their black streamered hats all but drank the local pubs dry. Field Marshal Montgomery, chief of Western Union's joint command, held a reception on board H.M.S. Implacable. The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard gave a cocktail party aboard the Tromp, which was named after one of the few admirals of any nation who soundly beat the British on the seas...
...fact, the bottom has practically dropped out of the market. Pom pom is now available on almost any Cambridge street corner for just five (5) cents...
Explanation of this amazing circumstance is simple. A local candy maker, anxious to find just the right evocative name to describe his latest confection, was swept away by a zeal for imagery; "Pom Poms" are the result, now on sale at your favorite drug or cigar store...
Doffing their football togs to discuss what they hope will be a football victory tomorrow, Captain Clco O'Donnel and teammate 'Pom Gannon will join with Crimson Networker Gerry Weller tonight in this week's edition of "The Harvard Sports Parade...