Word: alee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scraped away in Henry Fielding, by Frederick Homes Dudden, master of Oxford's Pembroke College, a biography which must now become the standard work on Fielding. As a biographer, Master Dudden is as dull and honest as an old pewter pot; but he brims nevertheless with the sloshing ale of Fielding's vitality, and time & again the rollicking old genius seems to seize the pot in his pudgy fist, slam the table, and roar out his irrepressible toast to life, and again life...
...swallow of gromwell (or any of a dozen other chemicals on which scientists are working) does not make a contraceptive summer. But the case for gromwell has a bit of legendary support: Shoshone Indians have long insisted that an extract from the western species (Lithospermum ruder ale) helps them to control the size of their families...
Styled in silver, this sterling cigarette holder is a replica of an early 18th Century Colonial Ale tankard. It stands 2 3/4 inches high and was fashioned in detail by one of Boston's oldest silversmits, GEBELEIN, at 79 Chestnut...
Like most of the organizations at Dartmouth, the DOC holds its own Parties. Officially, the refreshments consist of milk, ginger ale, and cider. These back-to-nature movements are held in any of the 16 cabins at various times of the winter and include outdoor girls from other colleges' outing clubs. The DOC is very popular...
...follow through on a very sticky wicket, here is an extension of the delicate differences between the two Ancient & Honourable Universities as observed by an American [and Cantabrigian]. Oxford: Scotch whisky, Parliament, Press & Pulpit, Beautiful men, Boyish women, Refined brilliance, Marry good country girls or Americans. Cambridge: Audit ale, Poetry, Pubs & Privacy, Handsome men, Manly women, Rough genius, Marry lusty city girls or Continentals...