Word: fruitwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida or Nassau -the newlyweds will settle into a two-bedroom apartment in Northampton in a building owned by Smith College. Furniture is no problem: since her parents' new residence in Washington comes furnished, Julie has scavenged their Manhattan apartment for everything from her father's fruitwood chest to end tables and Oriental rugs. David will commute the seven miles to Amherst in a well-worn white 1962 Valiant, which he bought from his grandmother last year. After earning his degree in political science, he plans to study law, perhaps at Georgetown University in Washington. As for Julie...
...first Janet is blind to Martha's designs. She is preoccupied with what a sudden half-million dollars will buy for refugees from a Manhattan walk-up-a rambling house in suburbia, a grove of fruitwood furniture, a set of leather elbow patches for Van's new tweeds. She tries gamely to keep up with hubby's new country squire pretensions. When Van mentions at a cocktail party that he is thinking of buying a 1929 Lagonda (an automobile), Janet chirps: "He's just crazy about good wines." Under the tutelage of seasoned Divorcee Shelley Winters...