Word: backgammon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highlighting the Class of 1898 events, which started yesterday and are not due to end until tomorrow, is a dinner this evening at the Harvard Club of Boston. The Forty-Fifth Reunion class of 1903 opens its program today with bowling on the green, golf, and backgammon at the Country Club in Brookline, and a dinner at 7 o'clock; the Fortieth Reunion Class started off last night with festivities at the Hatherly Country Club in Scituate and will wind up its preceedings at an Algonquin Club dinner tonight...
...bothered by shortness of breath and pounding of his heart under exertion. Doctors diagnosed it as a "slow heart," but nothing organically wrong. They prescribed digitalis (which he has taken ever since). The ailment has never recurred. For recreation, he likes to play gin rummy or backgammon with his wife, swims (sidestroke) twice a week in the Senate pool. Back home in Grand Rapids, he lives in a biggish brick & stucco house, works at an old-fashioned rolltop desk in his book-lined...
Along with goldfish gulping and backgammon, the last few years have witnessed the virtual disappearance of rugger from the Cambridge scene. To the contemporary undergraduate the name "rugby" might identify a town in North Dakota exalted as "the geographic center of North America" just as readily as it would be associated with a British athletic indulgence occasionally practiced in the United States...
...movies (but not first-run ones) without having to wait in line.* The fancy prices also cover the cost of 1) roomy love seats, 2) hearing aids, 3) telephone service direct to seats, 4) art exhibits, 5) free coffee and French cookies in a mirror-lined lounge equipped with backgammon tables and a television set, 6) free cosmetics in the champagne-colored ladies' room. Non-reserved seats will be sold (for 60?) at the box office. But Reade hopes there will be few available. Subscriptions to date: more than 50% of the theater's 599-seat capacity...
...Dewey is all business. His only relaxations are an occasional game of backgammon with handsome Mrs. Dewey, a swim with his two young sons, infrequent golf, a horseback ride on his 350-acre dairy farm at Pawling, penny-ante poker with his Pawling friends...