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...grandparents had to take their nap. I got up to leave, and, as I did, my grandfather expressed his hope that I would avail myself of the ample alcoholic refreshments there would be at the party. Before I could answer, my grandmother laughed, closed off the conversation with a wave of her hand, and said, "Listen, toots, if he belongs to my family, he drinks...
Desperate efforts to pull ahead were to no avail for Radcliffe, hampered as they were by their fashionable midi-length tunies...
...that Merle Hendricks, wife of Oriole Catcher Elrod, could have used: she gnawed her nails throughout the Series. Oriole Pitcher Dave McNally got one kiss goodbye and one kiss for good luck on the day he pitched. Should McNally have felt more amorous, it would have been to no avail-two is the limit. Strangest of all were the wives who deliberately didn't watch parts of the game. Twice the Orioles scored while one of the wives was away from her seat. After that, a contingent of Oriole spouses absented themselves every time Baltimore was at bat. They...
...clerk said "it is doubtful that he could avail himself of the privilege of voting on an absentee ballot" while in jail...
...city had attempted to confine the women's parade to a single lane on Fifth Avenue during rush hour ("You mean trucks and women keep left" was one scornful reply), but to no avail. Chanting, singing, waving posters, carrying babies, cajoling men friends along the line of march into joining them, they took over the entire avenue, providing not only protest but some of the best sidewalk ogling in years...