Word: skulled
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...regulation headdress for Freshmen is a black skull cap. This cap should not be worn when a Freshman is accompained by visitors or on the days of a Harvard or Yale football or baseball game...
...other hand, it seems a bit strange that such marks as skull-caps should be necessary to distinguish the Freshmen from the rest. It is said that no one can tell a Harvard man much; but it is certain that one can tell a Freshman. If one is a Senior Advisor, one may tell him a great deal. The Princeton rules, however, follow their course to its logical end; the Freshmen may not wear the college colors, and thus bring them into disrepute; they may not jeopardize themselves by venturing from their rooms after nine o'clock; worse...
...papal tailor anounced his readiness to supply the new cardinals with capes of ermine, red silk trains 25 feet long, garments of red wool, birettas, skull caps, great hats, stockings, slippers. Also, the violet garment to be worn in conclave. Also the black garment with red borders for street wear...
...after some experience-any newspaper story is a satisfactory story. But this routine type of writing can get into a man's blood, become instinctively necessary to him. The following is a story which complies with newspaper tradition: "Los ANGELES-Suffering from the effects of a fractured skull, from which he never recovered his mental powers, Frank C. Kingsland, newspaper man, committed suicide at a downtown hotel by shooting himself in the temple. His death was instantaneous...
...Aquila, about 50 miles from Rome, packs of ravenous wolves were driven from the Apennines to the lowlands by the heavy falls of snow. At Cittaducale, a nearby village, a tramp was attacked and devoured, only his skull being found...