Word: prom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Which explains a lot about the Brigham Younger generation. and it proves that: the person who said the worst brawl in America was the Harvard Junior Prom is all wrong. But not everyone gets as far west as Utah. We're not all Roumanians...
According to a New Haven dispatch, two 15-piece orchestras will furnish the music. These will be Wittstein's Yale Prom orchestra and Bolton-Cipriano's orchestra from the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club. There will also be a tea dance at the Commons after the game lasting until 7 o'clock...
...Prom the Rev. Dr. Turner's Nineteen Years in Polynesia we learn that "Hands are the choice bits-sacred to the priests," and that the flesh of white men was considered inferior to that of black, being of too salty a taste...
Then the news was spread that Dan Moody had failed to attain an absolute majority,* hence Mrs. Ferguson was not eliminated unless she desired to keep her prom ise. She decided not to do so, saying ambiguously "a challenge issued by Jim is not the acceptance of a challenge by Miriam." True, able politicians like onetime Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey considered the campaign closed, refused to have anything more to do with the Fergusons, and Texans generally were sated with Ku Klux Klan claptrap. What difference? Jim made a speech...
...Princeton, N. J., a score of ribald Juniors cheered the arrival of a Prom girl whose escort had chartered a buggy in her honor? imported it from still more rural districts at allegedly fabulous expense. "'THANKS for the Buggy Ride'! The Buggy, Buggy, Buggy Ride!" they caroled. "Lost all my pride! . . . Buggy-ridin'-lovin'! . . . I had a wonderful time...