Word: grinches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman and her children were planning to spend their first night in a new apartment when someone swiped their tree, presents, Christmas stockings and candy. In Layton, Utah, a thief absconded with a Salvation Army kettle, then collected all day on his own and pocketed the take. A Grinch in Madison, Wis., made off with 10 van loads of toys donated by the Marines. Meanwhile, a student in Frostburg, Md., so liked the tree that stood alongside the police station that he cut it down and set it up in his home without even removing the ornaments made by local...
Readings of classic children's books are a popular tradition: following a holiday dinner on Sunday, Cabot House students will read out loud from Dr. Suess's "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas"--and House tutors will act the story...
Decked out with a scowling Grinch tie and a pin with Santa hanging upside down from a chimney, author Tom Flynn enumerated the evils of Christmas for members of the Secular Society last night in the Owen Room in Winthrop House...
Flynn said prejudice against the yule-free canbe traced to two distinct figures: Dickens'Ebeneezer Scrooge and Dr. Seuss' Grinch...
...people what they prized above all else and helped instill in them the boundless cheer and goodwill that come from being fully invested and watching CNBC all day. That goodwill inspired bountiful acts, such as Ted Turner's pledging $1 billion to charity and Al Dunlap's--the Grinch, to some--granting stock options to every last employee at Sunbeam Corp. Of course, we still have work to do. Managers of Oxford Health Plans padded their wallets by selling sleighfuls of stock this year, just before the price collapsed. That seems at odds with the giving spirit. O Ghost...