Word: tasseling
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...blocked kick in the last quarter gave Pittsburgh's sloppy team a victory after it had been badly outplayed all afternoon by Washington and Jefferson. Score: Pittsburgh 6, Washington and Jefferson 0. Not many people are conscious, perhaps, that the initials D. & E., ki-yi-ing in the tassel of a cheer, stand for Davis and Elkins, a college in West Virginia. Army Cadets last week heard those initials screeched at them by the supporters of a team which they barely managed to edge...
...flopping, swishing, blinding, neck-tickling cap-tassel that is meant to depend over the left temple is uniformly black for bachelors and masters, golden for doctors...
...Jews, driven from Europe, had taken England for their own. Baruch Frankl, "Jew of Jews," ordered his tenants to wear a fez with a tassel as Livery of the Manor. But Hogarth refused, and Hogarth's sister rejected Frankl's amorous advances. Things took place-Hogarth flogged Frankl; Hogarth was convicted, falsely, of murder; Hogarth was sent to Colmoor prison. Rebekah Frankl, beautiful, barbaric, with earrings as big as hoops, flung a red flower with a black heart of passion to Hogarth on his conviction...
Tradition requires Seniors to wear caps and gowns every morning until 1 o'clock from May 1 until the close of the college year. Red tassel and braid distinguishes the outfits of class officers...
...earliest games with Yale, on November 12, 1881, the records speak of a "cold driving storm which soon wet the players to the skin," in spite of the fact that "the Yale team all wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...