Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metaphoric suggestions were offered by James R. Reynolds '23, Program Manager. "You don't get many eggs if you have a great many roosters and very few hens," the amateur farmer noted. "No cow ever let down milk in response to a letter or a telephone call," he warned; "you have to sit down beside her and go to work...
...dirt, and money like I said come from funerals, and maybe a honky-tonk or some dance hall over Storyville. They played beat-up horns and cigar-box banjos and basses made from barrels; and Pete had an old piano goods for noise but no tone-so they let the rhythm carry the tune, and they had more than enough of that. And pretty soon the people got to like the noise, and things moved fast and loud, like anybody'll tell who's heard an old-time band battle...
When Paris first shows off its new fashions, it permits no pictures for at least one month. The world's high-fashion leaders want no one pirating their latest creations until they are solidly entrenched in the salons. This week Paris finally let the world see what the new 1958 spring fashions were all about. The chemise is here to stay-but with endless variations...
...brothers was always the same. "In one of the biggest, finest houses in the District, there was a young man living whose name was Dennis," Serge would begin. "Dennis' family was the most important family in six streets, and they didn't like to let theirselves forget it none. They had two buggies, and three horses (In case one got sick) . . . They had everything...
...table was terribly untidy. Breadcrumbs soaked in the damp red stains, olive-stones floated in glasses, cigarette-ends sizzled in salad-plates. And we did not lift a little finger, we did not put a glass or a fork right, but just let the mess grow worse before us. We even leaned on it, growing callous, and delicately picked out of the wreckage the bare essentials. the bitter wine that was needed to keep the evening going...