Word: proms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unlike most college shows, where the undergrads write their own songs, Penn students see their Philadelphia dentist once a year for their tunes. Dr. Boland, an athletic-looking man, learned dentistry at Penn, but music by himself. In 1924 the University offered a prize for an original prom song; Boland won with one called Dreary Weather. Fred Waring, a Penn State man just starting to fame, recorded it. Boland has been grinding fillings and tunes ever since...
...There was never any thought but that he was one of the crowd. Never, that is, until one day, a week or so before some high-school prom or other, he made the mistake of asking cme of our girls whether he might escort her. The girl said yes, she would love to go with him but she must ask her mother. And I know that the girl wanted to go with Ken. . . . Well, the girl asked her mother's permission and her mother was horrified. The girl was forced to try to tell Ken why she couldn...
...check "on account" front Boston was enough to buy a $100 war bond, a new suit, and pay off the $3 which his steady girl friend, Sue Summer, had been obliged to advance for their ticket to the senior prom...
...ticket sale for the junior class prom this Saturday is building fast and the affair looms as a likely prospect to cop top social honors for the current season. In other words, kiddies, you had better get your tickets lest you spend another delightful eve in Boston...
...afflicted with the approximate equivalent of a combined Ku Klux Klan and Tammany Hall. Its name: Theta Nu Epsilon. No innocent social fraternity. T.N.E. is an outlaw* interfraternity society whose anonymous and generally hard-drinking members often work in secret to control student governments, campus newspapers, fraternity memberships and prom lists, in flagrant defiance of faculty edicts...