Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half a century, New Orleans' fantastic Mardi Gras balls were strictly for the upper crust. Nobody without money, blue blood, or both gained membership in the secret men's clubs or "krewes"* which staged them. Before 1900 there were only five clubs: Comus, Momus, Twelfth Night, Rex and Proteus. They culled guest lists with pernickety care, asked only the fairest of debutantes to serve as carnival queens. But times changed. The socially ambitious began forming their own krewes...
...There is no priority set-up" on filling the House vacancies, Dean Watson said yesterday. Returnees who resided in Houses before their absences, upper-classmen who spent the fall term in the Yard, Claverly and Dudley, and some commuters will plug the 173 gaps in the seven Houses...
Sunspots cause electrodynamic waves in the upper atmosphere, which provoke the movements of warm and cold air masses, Stetson observes...
...Ross also made a recent gift of a Corean painting of the XV century which has been placed in the upper corridor...
Dress as You Please. Rugby's 620 boys nowadays come mainly from upper-class professional and mercantile families (the peerage prefers Eton and Harrow.). In contrast to the formal Eton attire and classic Eton curriculum, Rugbeians may dress in tweeds, flannels or what they please, take their pick of vocational (woodworking, shorthand) as well as traditional studies...