Word: brasher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier segments, however, the characterizations were simpler. Ralph was even louder, brasher and more abrasive than in the shows now being seen, according to Peter Crescenti, co-founder of R.A.L.P.H. (Royal Association for the Longevity and Preservation of the Honeymooners), an organization of friendly fanatics formed in 1983. Alice was also louder and more argumentative, and Norton was dopier, unlikely as that may sound...
...promptly declared his own candidacy. By a nearly unanimous vote in parliament, Amin was elected to a six-year term. At first, no one quite knew what to expect of Amin. Though he had been a member of parliament for twelve years, he was all but overshadowed by his brasher young brother. Their...
...expectations, and Yale needed to find another $1.5 million as the projected construction cost grew to $6.7 million. Meanwhile, resting virtually unseen in a library vault was the Yale coin collection's most famous gold piece, a 26-gram doubloon struck in 1787 by New York Goldsmith Ephraim Brasher...
With reason. The most celebrated theft of a Brasher doubloon occurred as fiction in Raymond Chandler's 1942 mystery The High Window, later made into a movie. But in 1965 real thieves snatched the Yale doubloon from Sterling Memorial Library. The university got it back only because a private detective, tipped off that a Chicago mobster had the coin, was able to apply...