Word: raiment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...innocent of excessive learning as ourselves matters not. What boots it that their thoughts, far from being concentrated on some ethereal conception of intellectuality, are intent on that position at ten dollars a week and the comparative chances of an aesthetic lunch on fourteen cents at "Holts'." Their raiment sets them apart from the plebeian mass of undergraduates for the remainder of their connection with the University...
...seemed at times as if the orchestra did not sufficiently accommodate the singers. The acting is good, though not startlingly so. Mr. Savery in the two contrasted parts of floor-walker and crystal gazer filled his difficult role well. Mr. Bemis as the ambitious matron in beautiful and startling raiment had a character that suited him admirably. Mr. Benchley, however, in the minor part of the gum-chewing hair-dresser, and in his burlesque of Madame X, was the most finished performer. The costuming is, as always, elaborate and probably costly; the dresses of the leading ladies...