Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with food-filled tables. "That's an artichoke delight," Rose observed of one slide. "In this room, we have cocktails," she said of another. At one point, without a slide, Rose offered a "word to teenagers." Said she: "I know many of you mothers are appalled by the drinking that's going on among teenagers. Please, please tell them that to be sophisticated, to show that you've been places, you don't have to drink. The girl that does will lose her figure, face and looks. Mr. Kennedy never drank before making an important business...
...bulls and heifers ("When it happens," says Henry Fonda to Son James MacArthur, "remember you ain't any bull and that little girl of yours ain't any cow"); fancy cussin' ("Damn, damn, double-damn, triple-damn, hell" trills one of the tots); the evil of drink ("My weakness in the eyes of God." says Preacher Wally Cox, "could mean the end of my ministry"); embryology ("Donny took his nap in the fetal position," coos Mimsy Farmer to Maureen O'Hara); scatology ("Here's a dictionary," pants Mimsy to MacArthur. "with all the dirty words...
Most students were rather reticent about approaching the champagne trophy, and preferred to watch the Master, Senior Tutor, bandsmen, and house committemen attempt to drink from it. The chief difficulty appeared to be that it was rather difficult to judge just where the trickle of champagne would fall as you bent underneath the graceful silver spigot. Nevertheless, there was a general feeling of elation. The trophy would certainly prove useful at tea, if nothing else.The final trickle is sopped up by an eager Funster...
Within minutes, everybody gathered around (by now the spontaneous walkers had straggled back) in front of the courtyard gate to drink it up or at least to watch. A detachment from the Band, prevented from joining the march, provided inspirational music on the scene...
Most students were rather reticent about approaching the champagne trophy, and preferred to watch the Master, Senior Tutor, bandsmen, and house committemen attempt to drink from it. The chief difficulty appeared to be that it was rather difficult to judge just where the trickle of champagne would fall as you bent underneath the graceful silver spigot. Nevertheless, there was a general feeling of elation. The trophy would certainly prove useful at tea, if nothing else.The final trickle is sopped up by an eager Funster...