Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium's Leopold II once put her up as stakes in a gambling game with England's Edward VII, lost, and paid. Now in her 70s, still tall and stately, Caroline lives quietly in a small house on an allowance from an old admirer. "I spent the weekend regularly with Edward VII," she reminisced happily last week. "The Kaiser Wilhelm was so much in love with me he was crazy...
...tennis squad will make the first of a series of weekend junkets, when an eight man squad journeys to Annapolis on Friday, and back to West Point on Friday to open the season against the squads furnished by the service academies...
Including both Yardlings and men from the Houses, the group will assume its powers immediately after the Spring recess. It will operate as a unit until the Jubilee Weekend, now tentatively set for the early part...
...jumbled maze of Freshman life comes, once a year, a floating weekend of joy--the Jubilee. However grim the winter, spring must come at last, and traditional accompaniment for robins, seersucker jackets, and young fancies is the giant Yardling extravaganza...
Dinah Shore highlighted the 1940 affair with songs, while a poll of class members provided statistics for the "Ideal" girl to form a basis for choosing a queen of the weekend...