Word: whiteness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sales have stayed about steady at Oona’s even though White is seeing “a lot more competition” from other vintage stores. Her big season is Halloween, when customers come in to snatch up flapper and flower child ensembles, but Oona’s also carries clothing suitable for daily wear. She said that she has seen a marked upswing in everyday men’s clothing, since men’s fashions rarely change over the years...
...Harris tweed jacket looks like a Harris tweed jacket,” White said...
...that he was forced to make up his classes privately, and was fined for “improper behavior” during services.Johnston Gate and the GuardhouseJohnston Gate was built in 1890 and is currently the oldest gate in Harvard Yard, designed by the New York firm McKim, Mead & White. The gate was the first Harvard structure built from what is now referred to as “Harvard brick,” used to ensure that the gate would resemble already extant eighteenth-century buildings in the Yard. The University requested that the gate, along with future buildings, only...
...noted “the rancorous and almost hysterical political animus which rose against him and what he stood for among the privileged groups to which many of the Harvard graduates happened to belong.” Despite his cool reception on campus, FDR invited Harvard men to the White House throughout his presidency, once shaking the hands of two dozen Crimson oarsmen after a race in Annapolis, according to an article in Harvard Magazine. Among them was polio patient Tommy Hunter, whom Roosevelt, himself afflicted with the disease, rose to embrace. FDR’s brain trust, like Obama?...
...White House announcement took subtle shots at the priorities of the Bush Administration, stressing that the request from U.S. commanders in Afghanistan for the additional troops was "months old". President Obama's written statement explained, "This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires." (See photos of "Pakistan's Vulnerable North-West Passage...