Word: rite
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Come-as-you-are parties are also rite. They are planned in advance by one small group who, at the appointed time, rest out their companions and drag them, in various states of undress, down to the drawing room, where cat sessions ensue...
...74th time in its 76-year history, the whole college at 2 p.m. today will traipse through its annual spring fertility rite, Tree Day, on Severance Green. It's always been one of the best chances for Harvard men to look over the field without losing the sleep necessary to meet the early starting gun of the May Hoop Race...
...similar social consciousness carries through into the undergraduate's every action. An alumna tells the story of this spring's version of a traditional Wellesley rite--theft of the sophomore banner by freshmen. In an unusually spirited retaliation, the sophomores kidnapped the president of the freshman class and held her overnight in ransom for their flag. "Of course," the alumna adds quickly, "they asked the permission of the Dean of Students first...
...Long & Short. At week's end Harry Truman himself showed his party how he proposed to play politics in his fashion. He chose Washington's top ceremonial rite for faithful, fat-cat Democrats, the $100-a-plate Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, to beg "every Democrat to put patriotism above politics." Not once did he mention MacArthur by name, but he got a fine laugh by ad-libbing a reference to MacArthur's report to him at Wake Island: "It has been categorically stated that Russia will not come in if we bomb Manchuria. That statement was made...
Delivering that ectoplasmic commodity, Good Will, to the city of New York is a rite as carefully prescribed by convention-and fully as exhausting-as the Pawnee Sun Dance. When France's President Vincent Auriol arrived at Penn Station last week, the Big City picked him up with a whoosh; he was dusted off by blasts from the police band, photographed, hustled into an automobile, delivered to the Waldorf-Astoria behind exactly 32 motorcycle cops, bowed into a suite, led out of it again, and then formally welcomed to the city at a three-hour banquet...