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  "notes": "A four-sentence summary of the club's week: Monday, the men host the ladies at the regular weekly dinner; Wednesday, a banquet for 48 men before the Order of Hoo-Hoo initiation; Thursday afternoon, the ladies' regular bridge party. The archive's clearest statement of the club's weekly rhythm.",
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    "summary": "A 1921 notice gives the club's weekly rhythm — a Monday dinner, a Wednesday Hoo-Hoo banquet for 48, and the ladies' regular Thursday bridge.",
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      "The club held a regular weekly dinner on Mondays, at which \"the men of the club were hosts to the ladies\".",
      "The ladies of the club held a regular bridge party on Thursday afternoons.",
      "A banquet was served to 48 men on Wednesday evening, April 20, 1921, before the Order of Hoo-Hoo's initiation.",
      "Together with the monthly luncheon of November 1920 and the regular social meeting of June 1921, this shows the club running on a fixed calendar in its last years.",
      "The item's phrasing — men as hosts, ladies as hosted — is a sixth and conflicting usage in the archive's evidence on whether women were members."
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      "\"Regular\" is the paper's word. How long either fixture had run, or continued to run, is not established here.",
      "The 48 men at the Wednesday banquet were a Hoo-Hoo party, not a count of Emblem Club members.",
      "The membership usage on this page contradicts the March 1920 notice and is recorded as such; it does not settle the question in either direction.",
      "The page says nothing about the emblem."
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      "Most of what this archive knows about the club is single events, scattered years apart. This is a week, and it has a shape: a dinner every Monday, a bridge party the ladies hold regularly on Thursday afternoons, and in between, when a visiting order needed a room and a meal, forty-eight men at a banquet before an initiation.",
      "The word that keeps recurring in 1920 and 1921 is “regular”. A regular weekly dinner, a regular bridge party, a regular monthly luncheon in November 1920, a regular social meeting in June. Nine years after its founding and three years before it voted to disband, the club was running on a calendar.",
      "And a sixth usage for the membership question, pulling the other way again. Here the men of the club are hosts and the ladies are the hosted — which reads as members and guests, not as two halves of a membership. Set beside March 1920's lady-members and men members, and December 1920's wives who then win the prize among the members, it confirms only that the Bulletin had no settled term."
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