Word: boons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nationwide sales figures, on the other hand, show a general decline in buying when compared with last year's totals. But happy Square merchants find the Harvard man, with his "liberal, if inconsistent buying," a great boon to business...
...regions most dominated by the Puritan ethic that alcoholic excess appears most pronounced. Where the social group withdraws its approval from drinking, it becomes either a solitary vice or a wickedness covertly shared with a few boon companions. This type of alcoholism is allied not so much to poverty as to conflict within the personality. It is to be found in countries such as the U.S.A. and Sweden, which have experimented in prohibition. These two countries head the list . . . issued by the World Health Organization [last year] as having the highest proportional number of alcoholics-Italy, that great wine-drinking...
Singapore), larger and more elegant homes, wild and lavish partying. They win & lose tens of thousands of dollars at mah-jongg and soo-sek (a game like rummy). Aw Boon Haw, the fabulous "Tiger Balm King," has added a nightmarish swimming pool to his huge Singapore residence; on the bottom of the pool are outsize hand-painted statues of mermaids, Oriental-style...
...coronation. Edward I had brought the Stone to London in 1296 to celebrate his 21-day campaign against Scotland, had the coronation chair built around it and crowned himself King of England and Scotland. Edward had swiped the Stone from the Perthshire Abbey of Scone (rhymes in Scotland with boon, in England with lone), where it had formed the base of another chair in which the Kings of Scotland had been crowned for the previous 453 years. Before that, the Stone had rested at Dunstaffnage, Argyllshire, headquarters of even earlier Scots chieftains. Tradition says that the Stone had been brought...
Harvey (Universal-International), as playgoers learned in 1944, is an invisible rabbit well over six feet tall, the boon companion of a gentle, friendly lush named Elwood P. Dowd. The movie adapters of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize comedy have blessedly resisted the temptation to coax Harvey into full view.* Up to a point, they have even managed to recapture some of the Broadway production's daffy charm and prankish fun, and they have kept all of Josephine (Arsenic and Old Lace) Hull as its fluttery leading lady...