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Their friends note that temperamentally, the couple balance each other well. Mary is the classic overachiever with plenty of ambition and the kind of bottomless stamina that successful politicians often have. Nick, observes Irish Senator David Norris, has an incisive mind but appreciates "good food and good grog and enjoying life at an easier pace." The Robinsons guard the privacy of their children, Tessa, 19, William, 18, and Aubrey, 11. When Robinson visited Belfast in February, security was tight, but the word leaked to the press. Aubrey missed his customary perfect score in current events because, alone of his class...
...Jefferson City. Finally, with the U.S. Attorney in Kansas City acting as mediator, the Navy and the state compromised: when the Missouri is at sea, all the silver is hers. But when she is in home port, the Navy will make the punch bowl available to the state. Grog all around, mates...
...such wanton abandon were once again prohibited, Epps says, "it might improve people's GPAs." Of course, he adds, colonial Harvardians didn't always heed these rules. "During those days people did the most awful things in their rooms, like drinking grog and smoking things out of far-eastern pipes...
...Grog Gizzi had just quarterbacked the Harvard football team to a 28-26 victory over Princeton: to call him the man of the hour would be an understatement...
...seemed aloof and distracted as he moved through the shoals and eddies of café society, it may have been because he was, at heart, a maker of magazines. He pioneered foreign editions (the British, French and German versions of Vogue, known round the office as Brogue, Frog and Grog), introduced color photography and invented the "bleed" (borderless) page. He spent his idle hours analyzing advertising and circulation figures. Nast once confessed: "I am merely a glorified bookkeeper...