Word: chaperons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yard dormitory rule requiring chaperons to keep an eye on potentially amorous Freshmen is a needless irritant. At best, the chaperon system acts as a front to comfort parents worried about the intoxicating effect of almost unlimited freedom on their sons. At worst, it simply lingers as an obsolete carry, over from the old arrangement that held the bumptious Freshman in his "proper" place. Surely any such prep-schoolish requirement--that two "disinterested observers" oversee the activities of one couple--should follow having and beanies into oblivion...
...visit to Paris was the works. He showed up in the French capital ahead of time, quickly signed up the big shots for dinners and receptions, arranged a sightseeing schedule that omitted few historical monuments. But Father Benitez, who is both Evita's chaperon and confessor, could do nothing about the weather. The weather was cruel...
...addition to two front-row seats to "Juno and the Paycock" on opening night, May 6, HDC will provide the newly-acquainted couple with dinner at the China House, dancing at the Oval Room of the Copley, and a chauffer who is prepared to double as chaperon, if the need should arise...
Rule 39 of "Regulations for Students in Harvard College," chief cause of this simmering discontent, states: "For University buildings other than Houses, permission (for the reception of women) must be obtained from the Proctor or the Dean's Office and will be granted only when chaperons are to be present". This makes necessary the presence of two male chaperons for a student and his female guest, as well as a fifth person acting as chaperon if two couples are in a room--all this or the wrath of the Proctor and the University...
...bearded, 32-year-old Prince had been introduced to a comely 22-year-old Moslem-American stenographer, Mary Mohammed. Mary Mohammed said that she met the Prince at a banquet, added that he took her home and stayed until 5 a.m. Later she came to New York, with a chaperon...