Word: capping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that followed was long and bitter ("Must a gentleman eat with a mucker?" cried the clubmen). In the end, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and the rest of the clubs continued to flourish for the benefit of juniors and seniors who as sophomores had been lucky enough to get elected...
...stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
Bouncy Kay Kyser sashayed onstage in a flopping cap & gown, swinging a school-bell and shouting "How y'all?" Before he grimaced goodbye an hour later, televiewers were served a mishmash of old jokes, orchestral soloists, and dazed quiz contestants whose stumbling answers to the simplest questions have been part of the College's peculiar fascination for the ten years it has been a top-ranking radio show...
...Right Note. The planeloads of guests for the opening would include Actress Alexis Smith, oldtime Star Gloria Swanson, Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker, R. H. Macy's Beardsley Ruml, David Rockefeller and Julius ("Cap") Krug. But none of the party-goers would enjoy the round of banquets, swimming parties and tennis tournaments as much as their party-loving, party-giving host, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, the world's No. 1 hotelman, who this week was getting his first excited look at his newest hotel...
...hours later, dressed in his best suit and a white sailor cap, Artie walked into the Waldorf and explained that his mother was waiting at La Guardia Field with his ticket. He fumbled when the airport bus driver asked for the $1.25 fare until a kindly passenger coughed up. There was no problem at the field: he just walked up the gangway with everybody else, settled down in a seat beside the window, soon, high over eastern Pennsylvania, he was chatting with the stewardess and sipping chicken broth...