Word: antimacassars
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...when the doses of rhubarb were periodic and gigantic, when pet dogs threw themselves out of upper storey windows, when cooks reeled drunk in areas, when one sat for hours with one's feet in dirty straw dragged along the streets by horses, when an antimacassar was on every chair, and the baths were minute tin circles, and the beds were full of bugs and disasters...
...ways. "The Harkness Boot" printed an article entitled "The Elks in Our Midst" beneath the title of which there is surely no need to go. Tap Day is one with Freshman fraternities and fence rushes. According to a letter in the "Daily News" it is "obsolete as the antimacassar, the wall motto and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett." In a word, "Tap Day" and the ritual of secrecy appears in the light of the new maturity childish, sophomoric; and ridiculous...
...time an able chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine, Keysman Hobson wrote: "I hazard the guess that Tap Day is doomed, along with the antimacassar, the wall motto, and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett...