Word: bedecked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concludes: "On the stage and upon the motion picture screen we are portrayed with diamond crowns and robes of ermine.... As a matter of fact I have purchased exactly two new gowns in the last two years. Both are all Bulgarian in style, material and workmanship. . . . Princesses do not bedeck themselves .... We, like all women, deserve the best of our fatherland and of humanity as good housewives...
Harvard banners bedeck the streets above the heads of parading graduates. The baseball team is tasting the first Eli blood that has fallen to a Crimson nine in several years. A Harvard crew is waiting in New London with more than psychology to show to a Yale eight on the Thames tomorrow. Bands play, stands cheer, flags wave. It is an exciting pageant. And it is a curious sociology that lies behind it. Anthropologists of today may well envy their successors of tomorrow the investigation of the Commencement celebrations of primitive American peoples...
...Stadium exercises this afternoon will come as a prelude to the spreads which will bedeck the lawns of Cambridge this evening. The Hasty Pudding Club, Beck Hall, the CRIMSON, the Phillips Brooks House, Phi Kappa Epsilon, Speakers' Club, K. G. X. Club, St. Paul's Catholic Club, Pi Eta Club, S. A. E. Club, Kappa Sigma Club, and several individuals will hold spreads at various parts of the University. The first three will be held at the Pudding club house, Beck Hall, and the Crimson Building respectively...
...frills and furbelows will bedeck their billowing bosoms; no petticoats will swathe their fattish calves; no bushy beards will sway from their chubby chins. No more will they, wearing what-the-gentlemen-will-wear, rush into night clubs. No more will their handsome features peer through a peekhole in a door behind which 200 topers are toping; and no more will their portly bodies enter to find a single toper dizzily sipping ginger beer. No more need wedding guests lifting their bubbling-stemmed glasses to the bride, fear sudden descent of those twain, snatching the twinkling beverage from their lips...
...Coolidge acquired ten large balls of yarn and began 18 months' work on a great quilt or bedspread, knitted, to bedeck a fourposter in the state bedroom of the White House. Every mistress of the White House from Dolly Madison to Mrs. McKinley made something to leave behind her in the executive mansion...