Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which long played second sax to the Room, became a supper club in 1965. Its windows were doubled in size and the floor raised 18 in. to pull the skyline into the room. It was modestly successful for 14 years, bringing in such performers as Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan. But topflight nonrock talent became increasingly hard to find from season to season, and Partners May and Daly decided to turn the place into a European-style cabaret...
...great lessons of fairy tales is to mind what one wishes for: one may get it. In 1895 a schoolgirl named Gladys Deacon read about the marriage of the reluctant Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough and determined that some day she too would marry well...
Gladys had plentiful suitors with blue blood and fortunes too: the Crown Prince of Germany, three noble Romans, the venerable Duke of Norfolk, who got down on all fours at her order to play dog, and the Duke of Connaught, the late Queen Victoria's son, whom she dismissed in a letter full of "cruel and seething words...
...young fellow came to my newspaper office the other day looking for a job. He had just graduated from Duke and told me that while there he had gotten religion and was going to become a minister. "You're the exception rather than the rule," I told him. "Often the Sunday School boy goes off to college and becomes an atheist...
...train arrives at the station": "The station is crowded"). One study of 300 freshmen at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, found that students trained by this method wrote significantly better than a control group. Sentence combining can be used at all age levels. A program called Success, developed at Duke, teaches second-and third-graders how to read and write using vocabulary from newspapers. Before writing their own paragraphs, they compose paragraphs together, with the teacher at the blackboard acting as secretary...