Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HOUR LATER, A STEADY FLOW OF PEOPLE CONTINUES to round the corner looking for the end of the line. The rain has gathered intensity. We are positioned outside the window of the Celebrity Deli. Inside the darkened window a Mexican gentlemen sweeps the floor. Cured meats hang from hooks. Pickled vegetables float in jars. We stare forlornly at the warm, empty booths...
...When a gentlemen told me in 1977 to wear this sweater, I didn't imagine one day nobody else would be allowed to wear it," Gretzky said...
Another typical evening. A group of perfectly groomed young gentlemen in dinner jackets stroll to their club for a brief bourbon. Tonight, the glittering ballroom of the cotillion is theirs for the taking. Silk gowns sway and champagne flows. The band thrills and the playboys survey the scene. The party swells. In the early morning hours, the gala subsides and the young men return to their lush apartments on Mount Auburn Street...
...Boston has been a social leech of Harvard College...when the supply of eligible young men in Boston was decreased by the westward movement, the Boston mammas suddenly became aware that Harvard contained many appetizing young gentlemen from New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere...In vain are freshmen tossed onto the same heap; freshman fellowship, brisk enough in the opening days of College and the first elections of committees, blows away in a whiff of invitations to dances and week-end house parties. The social cleaver widened the chasm that a mistaken laissez-faire created between Yard and Gold Coast...
After almost two decades at the center of Harvard's party scene four of the eight all-male final clubs have returned to their gentlemen's club roots since January, using stricter guest policies to end the era of open parties...