Word: tricorn
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...gold-frogged red coat and ostrich-trimmed tricorn hat, Moore embodies the image of Dickensian London long promoted by the city's tourism chiefs to lure foreign visitors at Yuletide. It is now being deployed on this dank, dark morning to tempt customers across the threshold of Liberty's. It's no easy task. London is anticipating its most Dickensian Christmas for years - and there's not likely to be a Christmas Carol-style feel-good ending. (See pictures of Santas gone wild...
...Dawson’s Creek”; Meredith Monroe)School: FAS Projected Year of Harvard Graduation: 2006 Capeside High Activities: Chairwoman of the Honor Council; assistant director of “Barefoot in the Park”; Yearbook staff (The Capeside Tricorn) Capeside High Honors: Class Valedictorian Quote: Overheard on a junior year visit to “Cambridge College”: “These students enjoy the distinction of attending America’s finest college. Founded in 1626 [sic], it was named after a British...
...Lexington. The town’s Historic Districts Commission must approve everything along the stretch of Mass. Ave. that serves as the town center—from signs in store windows to bike racks. High school students and senior citizens, clad in “traditional” tricorn hats made in China, lead tourists around the Battle Green where the battle of Lexington took place. This is the same land that today hosts practices of the high school’s ultimate frisbee team and serves as a water stop for cyclists on the (appropriately named) Minuteman Bikeway...
...good painter of adults, pensive servants especially--who never, it should be noted, become illustrations for a lecture on class--but his children are marvels. A young boy, the son of one of Chardin's collectors, soberly kitted out in black tricorn hat and mole-colored coat, is attentively building a house of cards--that emblem of fragility that nonetheless does not fall. Another lad, not 10 years old, watches with the most exquisitely rendered absorption the fate of a spinning top on a writing table; it leans under the pull of gravity but is still (only just) erect...