Word: bostonians
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...Pennsylvania would come over. South Carolina's Edward Rutledge entered smiling?ins colony, too, would vote for independence. New York's men still awaited instructions from home, but they would not dissent. That left only Delaware stalemated?one delegate in favor, one opposed, and one back home on business. Bostonian John Hancock, President of the Congress, rapped his gavel. Secretary Charles Thomson began rereading the resolution aloud prior to a vote...
Much is at stake in New York. And while it is a logical place for the British to attack, it is a less than ideal place for Washington to defend. One difficulty is the nature of the New Yorkers themselves. Colonel Knox, a Bostonian, has described them as "magnificent in their pride and conceit, which is inimitable; in the want of principle, which is prevalent; in their Toryism, which is insufferable, and for which they must repent in dust and ashes...
Marisa's father was the late Robert L. Berenson, a proper Bostonian and career diplomat. Her granduncle was the art historian Bernard Berenson. Her mother Gogo, now the Marchesa Cacciapuoti di Giuliano, was the daughter of Elsa Schiaparelli, the Parisian designer who introduced colors like shocking pink to the sober world of 1930s haute couture...
...proper season, the half of the crowd that's not rowdy kids or their grown-up counterparts will be B.U. students from Long Island, heavily into New York--they would never think of booing Yastrzemski if he were a Yankee. No wonder there's an edge to the Bostonians' insults--it's like the American track team in China, last week, impressed in spite of themselves because the Chinese fans seemed to really mean it about friendship, not competition, but dubious deep down inside--"Americans like to win," one runner told reporters firmly, as though it was an indictment...
...heaves into view. According to the Park Street map it goes to Oak Grove. Nothing to lose might as well go along for the ride. Pay now or later? (A peculiarly Bostonian dilemma, of course) Later...