Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only on a smaller scale." She was quick to see that to Europeans it was completely unimportant that she had been snubbed in Manhattan. London and Paris expected lavish entertainment from Americans, not lineage. For two decades Louise Mackay supplied the entertainment. Her parties had a Babylonian magnificence, from "eighteen footmen on the stairs to the bowls of out-of-season violets in the blue salon." Her guests included the British royal family, the royalist and Bonapartist nobility of France. The Americans who had treated her so cavalierly in Manhattan had finally got their comeuppance. John Mackay was a patient...
...building itself, decorated with Teddy Roosevelt's African game trophies, oak paneling, and coat of arms, there was opportunity for a real Harvard club. Its basement held a large room with eighteen billiard tables where a member could obtain free instruction from a "well-known professional." A kitchen, a printing office, and rooms of The CRIMSON completed this floor. Above, in the hall now used as freshman dining room, was a living room. An athlete's training table occupied what is now the Union kitchen. Upstairs, a library of 25,000 volumes filled one room while on the third floor...
Absence of any real controversy probably means only that The Harvard Union, both as an idea and as a building, has settled into a comfortable rut; Gen. Ed. A Offices replace the eighteen-table poolroom in the basement, and a broom-closet replaces The Harvard Monthly on the top floor. Harvard Utility has conquered "Harvard Democracy...
...Grande,'' on to San Francisco. Mother Hogan was far from pleased to see the "tattered and penniless Frenchman." Nor could Belloc overcome Elodie's resistance (she wanted to be a nun) until five years of relentless courtship-by mail -persuaded her at last into happy marriage. Eighteen years later, when he was 43, his wife died. For the rest of his life he wore black broadcloth, and used black-edged writing paper...
...cautious groundwork for the inevitable trend towards nuclear weapons in Germany and throughout NATO. Assuming that they will eventually agree to military work, the scientists should be given an opportunity to express doubt over future dangerous policies. Instead of being rushed too quickly into bomb research projects, the eighteen may now be given opportunity to continue work on hydrogen fusion at laboratory-induced temperatures--a promising German discovery in the peacetime nuclear field. Their protest has again shown the sensitive nature of Germans towards rearmament; rearmament whose nuclear aspects should be under strict NATO control...