Word: congruous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like students' dress at all," the rabbi explained, "they should have more respect for college--not meaning you, you're wearing a tie, a jacket, and your hair is combed, you washed your face this morning--I don't like those big beards on boys; they don't look congruous to me--although the Bible says you shouldn't cut off your beard or the edge of your hair. the Nazarene. But we were brought up ... not to wear torn shabby clothes. Certainly the girls with the mini-skirts are really ridiculous in some cases. And the boys...
...only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like a ragpicker; the baron makes her buy the latest imported fineries. Ippolita doles out fourth-rate wine to the servants in "a quantity congruous for Christians of base extraction." The baron invites them to lap up casks of vintage Vaiano. When the baron goes off to war, Ippolita, with Balzacian parsimony, delightedly returns to her beans and mush, pawns her fine dresses and lights one dim lamp of an evening...