Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because people were losing their money in bales. If one were tasteless enough to ask a big loser what exactly he was losing, he would sputter, incredulous, "What am I losing? My boat! My car! My home, my beautiful home! My children's educations! Expensive schools! My clothes! My dinner! My dollars!" All true, every sorrowful word. People have been mourning the passing of their money for all the things that money can do, and what money can do is impressive. Money can build cities, cure cancers, win wars. The sudden acquisition of the stuff can toss our spirits into...
While the letter does not call for the abolition of all interhouse regulations, it recommends that Quincy restrict interhouse only between 12 and 12:15 p.m. and 1 and 1:15 p.m. It also recommends no restrictions on interhouse during dinner hours except on special occasions...
However, students usually have better things to do. Only half of the 70 Leverett students who are formally invited to each bi-weekly student-SCR dinner actually attend, Dowling says. And few students attend the North House SCR meetings, although they are always welcome, says Robert Franklin, North House senior tutor...
When the North House masters institutedbiannual student-faculty dinners, where studentsinvite the professor of their choice to dinner,they proved very popular and many other houseshave picked up the tradition. "It is a moreeffective way of getting students and facultymembers together," says North House Master J.Woodland Hastings, because the students andfaculty members already have something in common...
...tickers in the brokerage houses that were springing up around the country, stocks could be bought on margin, or credit, for as little as 10% in cash. About one-third of the nation's more than 3 million stockholders were playing the market on margin, and people at dinner parties kept telling stories about barbers or messenger boys who had kept their ears open, bought on margin and become millionaires. John J. Raskob, who had been a director of General Motors and was now the Democratic Party chairman, published an article titled "Everybody Ought to Be Rich." The jazz...