Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Howard E. Lamson, tailor of 1388 Massachusetts avenue, Cambridge, will make alterations on uniforms at the following prices: Skirt of O.D. wollen coat taken in at bottom, 75 cents; back of O.D. woolen coat reduced from shoulders, $1; shortening sleeves of O.D. woolen coat 25 cents; collar cut down O.D. woolen coat, 75 cents; new collar for O.D. woolen coat, $1; O.D. trousers taken in st waist, 25 cents; O.D. trousers taken st waist down to crotch, 35 cents; calf of leg altered on O.D. woolen trousers 35 cents; canvas leggins taken in at bottom 25 cents; chevrons sewed...
...paraded, but here is a stronger argument than any yet brought before the public: Think of the loss to American literature if that romantic tropical colony passed out of our control! Where else could a noble American officer parade through a jungle in a yellow wig and a ballet skirt for the love of a heroine named Inez, and brave a villain named Morang, and go through savage ceremonies with bolos and nipa and tuba and other atmospheric perils, finally to be buried to the neck with syrup on his face and a swarm of red ants turned loose...
...irrational and haphazard beginning. Few are the students, who, starting out with no definite plan of study in their mind and no inclination to form one, ever cease their academic meanderings in order to follow a rational scheme of mental training. As they begin, so they end, intellectual skirt-dancers. To avoid such lamentable wasters of educational opportunities, the system of concentration has been put into force. This afternoon, the founder of the scheme, President Lowell, will speak to the Freshmen on the "Choice of Electives," and will explain to the its purpose and possibilities. No one is better qualified...