Word: aficionados
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wedding band. "You will notice no diamonds," she said, saying further that "Jack and I joke that other doctors in Sarasota spend $200 a week eating out. We don't, and this is why." She swept an arm grandly back toward the gleaming old bird, and just then an aficionado approached with a world of esoteric inquiries...
...used to be afraid of snakes, and I wanted to like them," says Sara, explaining why she asked her parents to buy her Honey, a python. Sam, also a snake aficionado, has his two snakes at school because "it's a really neat experience to get to know and touch them...
Sports Editor Jeffrey A. Zucker, a former Playgirl centerfold, enjoys tennis and video games. JI H. Min, The Crimson's Photo Chairman, aspires to the same position at The Wall Street Journal and is also a video game aficionado. You can meet both of them in our newsroom tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m., when you can also learn about the fall comp, Free beer here...
Tall, heavily-built, dark-skinned and square-featured, Hemingway is still a bullfight aficionado (fan), likes also big-game fishing, hunting, plays tennis regularly to keep his weight down. Divorced (1926) from his first wife, he was remarried a year later to Pauline Pfeiffer, then a Paris fashion writer for Vogue, has had by her two sons, Patrick and Gregory Hancock. Since 1930, he has made his home at Key West, living there in a thick-walled, Spanish-built house, its garden somewhat incongruously inhabited by peacocks. His 30-ft. launch El Pilar he uses for casual pleasure jaunts, trips...
Department chairman and yachting aficionado David Mumford seemed to be most excited about the whole affair, saying the four Aussies were a "patriotic bunch...