Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Start about the same process today, and, if you're the least bit more controversial than the chess club, you've probably bought yourself an ulcer. You've got to get approved by the Student Council and by the Dean's Office. You've got to keep on file at the Dean's Office a complete list of members and an up-to-date version of your constitution. Every one of your members must be a member of Harvard University, and half of them must be students at Harvard College. You can't undertake any activity outside the limits...
...South of France lard is used to absorb the odor of flowers for perfume, and in this dinner it is used for the purpose of absorbing the odor of onions, mushrooms and celery with wonderful effect. Without the full half pound of lard the dinner is no good." Chess Cakes. "These are tasty morsels of early Americana, the recipe inherited through the generations and quite generally retained exclusively within the family. I have never seen a chess cake recipe published." Fish Lolo. "Lolo is Fijian for the juice extracted from freshly grated coconut ; do not mistake it for the milk...
Castles & Caves. U.S. ballet fans, awaiting the arrival of the English company, had been eager to see Sadler's Wells' modern English ballets-with choreography by De Valois, Helpmann and Frederick Ashton. Among the best of these were De Valois' animated chess game, Checkmate, her Rake's Progress (after Hogarth's famous drawing sequence) and Ashton's gay Wedding Bouquet and impish Façade (to music by William Walton). They were performed with a brittle wit and a steely stylishness...
...monastic life of the Order came the Bead Game, a kind of synthesis of human learning, which, in its subtlety, resembled both the chess game of master players and the improvisation of great musicians. One player stated a theme, perhaps a thought of a great philosopher, or a phrase of some medieval musician; his opponent replied with a complementary phrase, or with one opposing it, or related to it, and the Game proceeded, with constantly deepening associations, with references more varied, subtle and ingenious. The greatest players became the leaders of the Order, and the greatest of all its central...
...father, Alfred Chapin Clapp, was an insurance broker of East Orange, N.J., He was a kindly man with a small goatee and a frock coat who quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...