Word: bicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside of them." Now, half a century later, Gardiner's observation is at last accurate.Outwardly less attractive than the isolated clubs of Mt. Auburn Street, but more profitable financially, are the buildings on Massachusetts Avenue. S.A.E., the non-final remnant of the fraternity system, has rooms over the Bick. In the next building, Porcellian rents its first floor to J. August...
Harvard has a group of students who never carry books, who never go to the Bick for after-class coffee, and who think a bluebook is pretty because the cover is of such a pleasing shade...
...Orientation of the Oriental" takes a further step backward when the villagers demand that Uncle Sam build them a teahouse instead of a schoolhouse. Fisby tactfully gives in, and then to give the people enough money to trade at the teahouse, sort of a rustic Hayes-Bick, he tries to establish them in the souvenir business. The troops won't take the trinkets, and the village is forced to resort to the sale of home-brewed, week-old brandy to the island officers' clubs. The brandy business booms and little Tobiki thrives. A teahouse is built. This set, designed...
Poor Leslie. Leslie Lynnton met Jordan Benedict when he dropped in at her gracious old Virginia home to buy a fine horse that Dr. Lynnton owned. Leslie was slim, well read, provocatively frank and altogether charming, an exceptional gal for even the Old Dominion. "Bick" Benedict owned one of the biggest ranches in Texas, couple three million acres or so. He was big, handsome, impetuous and all male. In no time at all he wooed and won Leslie, brought her back to the huge Reata ranch as his wife...
...Chosen Ones, men who resent standing in line to buy a coffee at the Bick, it will be the worst does you'll ever have to choke down. The life of the dogfact may be amusing in a Bill Mauldin cartoon, but, Buster, show me the Patriotic Young American who would trade a Beauty-rest and a blonde for a hole in the ground...