Word: alum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graciousness is under pressure, she soon discovers. Her father, silver-haired Preston Woodcock III. is juggling martinis instead of balancing the family paper company's books. Her mother is outwardly butter-smooth, inwardly alum-bitter. Her cousin Woody is an effeminate dandy swooning before his hi-fi set, while sister Peggy is briskly infighting for some stock proxies to oust another cousin who "robbed us of damned near every red cent we own!" The Adam in this snaky Garden of Eden is Peggy's husband Barney Callahan. a morosely charming outlander (Massachusetts Irish) who convinces the troubled Barbara...
...boiling up several hundred sows' ears into "glue" resembling a silkworm's glandular secretion, adding acetone to make jelly, filtering and spinning under high pressure into fine "threads" hardened with chrome alum and formaldehyde, weaving on a hand loom...
...officer oarsmen (a second-string boatload also got orders to crew duty), nine had married, and five were already fathers: the old days of monastic concentration on the job at hand were gone for good. Hands had gone soft. Even after bathing them in alcohol and alum, some of the crewmen could not be sure their palms would stand the wear...
...last it was time to walk down to "Alum" and start the evening's entertainment. It began with the Scottish Dancers who did four or five authentic dances. We were very surprised to see how gracefully they tiptoed around and bounced back and forth. When they had finished, the leader walked proudly up to the platform and said, "Well, did you like that? (great applause and shouting) Good! Now let's all dance...
...addition to the variety night-cared crew, three other shills of Crimson baseman will compete in the Olympic tryouts on July 4-5 on Lake Quinsigamond of Were deter, might Harvard alum al have forced groups to outer three different classes of rowing, in on effort to earn a place on the Olympic team on the trip to Finland for the 2958 games...