Word: toga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slates and these, if they were sufficiently esteemed by the teaching staff, were written up on the walls or ceilings of the building. The atmosphere was one of archaic simplicity and studied leisure. The visitor was entertained by President Eliot,* a tall, distinguished-looking elderly man in a toga, who had inherited his position from his grandfather. There was a large open fire in the room, which was lit by tallow candles which two undergraduates continually snuffed...
...British League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports protested (TIME. Feb. 9). Everyone at Eton looks forward to St. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30) when the famed Wall Game takes place between teams representing Eton's 70 scholarship students, the Collegers (called "Tugs" from their traditional toga-like garments of black broadcloth) and the Oppidans (the rest of the students). The Wall Game is played with a football the size of a grapefruit against a long wall. Object is to dribble the ball down the wall and send it through a goal. This is almost impossible under...
From this the conversation quite naturally drifted to Mussolini. "The superman on the football field and the superman on the throne are two quite different things," she said. "In Europe last year it seemed that every body was insistent upon asserting his claim to the Napoleonic toga. But oddly enough the French seem to have changed their attitude toward Americans since they have acquired some money they have stopped sneering at you in the streets and confine their feelings to the family circle. And then there is always that American attitude that a young girl on the steamer rather pungently...
...supporters have found their way into the sacred halls of justice down Washington way. According to the prognostications of local experts the wet candidate in Massachusetts should attain a comfortable majority in November. In the west, Senator Walsh of Montana, with a brilliant career while wrapped in the toga, faces quite likely defeat by an inferior candidate, purely because the latter is wringing wet. Rolph of California will bear a moist gubernatorial standard to victory against a dry Democrat, according to past elections in a Republican state. New York, Wisconsin and others are already damp...