Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free State Senate. As their champion up rose dignified Senator Maurice Moore, brother of the late great Novelist George Moore, a great hand at describing the frolics of colleens. "I propose," he intoned, "that our girls be obliged by a law which I now propose to the Senate to wear a distinctive dress until they reach the age of consent, fixed at 18 years." Upon any Irishman caught sporting with a colleen thus dressed, Senator Moore proposed to visit drastic punishment...
...general, uniform designers are almost as anonymous a lot as postage stamp engravers. Most famed uniforms are a gradual outgrowth of ancient traditions. Thus the sailors of Britain still wear round their necks a black silk scarf, in perpetual mourning for Admiral Lord Nelson. A few famed uniform designers are known. Michelangelo designed the uniform of the Swiss papal guard exactly as it is still worn. The Potsdam Grenadier Guards' uniform was designed by Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon...
Referee Cohalan frowned dangerously. "Women don't dress in crinoline or hoop skirts any longer." growled he. "They wear lounging pajamas. Just because a woman comes in and takes off her coat and puts on lingerie doesn't mean that she is about to commit adultery...
...with a rival tribal chief's son. Her camera-conscious father shakes his battle-ax, the black warriors jump into their canoes and there is the customary stone and mud-pie fight around the village walls. "Hei Tiki" is the love charm which girls of the Maori tribe wear around their necks. Worst shot: a group of natives with their backs to the camera yammering around a pile of holy sticks...
Harvard has shown a stronger offense than the Big Green and the three lines which have been again scrambled should be able to wear down any opposition from the really strong first Dartmouth line, because the Indians are unusually weak on reserve strength...