Word: napkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, Memorial Hall has as many uses as the paper napkin. Students register there when they enter the University, and are tested there to see if they have the right to leave. In 1949, a year which contained 211 academic days, including Sundays, Memorial Hall was used for 40 concerts, 65 music rehearsals, 21 drama performances, six dress rehearsals, 12 public lectures, 22 student dances, 12 student political meetings, 15 public medical classes, three alumni gatherings, and 19 miscellaneous events; a total of 212 functions...
...alternative is frightening. It is a future of phones that go dead when you answer them, of footsteps that echo yours and stop when you stop, of letters that disappear silently from your desk. The very napkin-holders will have ears, and even the maid will be tight-lipped and shifty-eyed as she goes over your room in the morning...
...striped suit, and a necktie that would have graced a diplomat's funeral. He fidgeted as he waited for breakfast in his suite at the Mayflower Hotel. "I want to be right on time," he said, glancing at his watch. "It is proper." He ate little, wrapped a napkin over his forefinger and rubbed his teeth and gums meticulously when he was through. Forced to wait before testifying, he sat in a Capitol anteroom with the stiff dignity of a British butler in an American movie...
...biggest display of House spirit in several years, they then broke into the Union and entertained dining Yardlings with Leverett yells, speeches, and napkin-tossing. The freshmen cheered the show throughout...
...Hope pictures to see the great man mug, and to hear the latest from the sub-artistic world of two line jokes. Unfortunately in "The Great Lover" the unwilling aficionados are subjected to long sequences in which Roland. Young polishes off a recent Yale graduate with the napkin from a champagne bottle, and a half dozen small children plot together, trying to act grown-up. In addition Hope is forced to portray a character out of North Zanesville, Ohio. He is therefore not nearly so funny as when he is portraying Bob Hope...