Word: fingerbowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During these affairs the host members will be carefully on the lookout for the punchee's social grace, his dexterity with a fingerbowl, his conversational adroitness. Both pomposity and too much reticence score bad marks; general friendliness and sophistication are the qualities looked for. These punching dnnners, despite the emphasis on gracious living, are often conducted with a certain flamboyant gracelessness. Several nearby country clubs, whose premises have been rented for large Club dinners, have furiously prohibited the Club from ever returning, so vast was the damage in shattered glass and splintered wood. And returning from one of these extravaganzas...
...question of which way the suburbs would go. The Volunteers for Eisenhower were the first to spot the possibilities of the suburban areas, turned in big Republican leads from New York's bedroom counties all across the U.S. Even in deep-Democratic Georgia, Atlanta's three suburban "fingerbowl" districts gave Ike a 3-1 lead. Said Chicago's Democratic Boss Jack Arvey (after the. Democrats had lost his Cook County): "The suburbs were murder...
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