Word: powderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper of that day, commenting on this, continued: "Notwithstanding this warning, on the 19th, a band of Sophomores met two Freshmen, and began to 'haze' them, until one of the two drew a pistol loaded with powder, and fired it into the face of one of the Sophs. The latter then withdrew to their rooms, making a great noise, and threatning to annihilate the Freshmen. Next day the Faculty met, heard evidence on the subject, and decided to suspend eight of the Sophs...
...mediocrity. Now he can enjoy perfect English among virile types in a violent land. Then, when another agrarian movement robs Mexico of a delight in Shelley, and the bullets of the next candidate for the presidency penetrate the calm of Dr. Finlev's southern sanctum, he may prefer the powder of the northern classroom to the powder of his departed Utopia...
...member of the Columbia University football team almost caused a riot in that institution's famous library the other day when he produced a powder compact, mirror and all, in the reading room, and proceeded to cast a cosmetic cloud over his manly countenance with the raw materials contained therein...
...Asked whether he thought that was nice," says the New York World, "he is said to have replied that this is a free country and that George Washington wore a powdered wig and blue satin trousers and nobody thought any the less of him for it." The World further indicates that Columbia undergraduates are taking to powder and lipstick in force. Athletic exertion makes their faces shine so disgustingly...
Norwegian. Roald Amundsen arrived from Oslo on his way to Italy, where he will negotiate for an Italian dirigible to take him to the pole next spring. "Pemmican, nuts, rolled oats, milk powder and chocolate will be our chief food supplies," he told Berliners...