Word: nightcap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listened to jazz at Bop City, danced the Charleston at a teen-age party, sipped a horse's neck (ginger ale and lemon peel) at the Stork Club, took a moonlight ride through Central Park in a convertible with the top down, and burned her tongue on a nightcap of hot chocolate at Rumpelmayer's. It was the kind of Manhattan merry-go-round that teen-agers dream about for their first visit to New York. So naturally it was just the thing for Sheila John Daly, one of the two top teenagers' columnists,* even though...
...nightcap at the Blockhouse, Leverett's well-organized squad handily whipped an Eliot group that had all the coordination of a nine-months-old elephant. The game resolved into a struggle between the tall men of the teams, Dave Belcher of the Bunnies and Bob Crichton of Eliot. Between them they monopolized the backboards; Belcher scored 12 points and Crichton got 18. Leverett led all the way, showing superiority in shooting, particularly the sets of Jim Ross (8 points), passing, speed, and particularly in teamwork. It was Eliot's first loss, to three wins, and Leverett's first...
...year tonight when it lines up in the Arena at 7:45 p.m. against Holy Cross, the team that brought big-time basketball to New England. Boston University and Boston College, which beat Harvard on a last-second field goal before the vacation, provide the entertainment in the nightcap...
...Cardinal Mazarin showed "to what extent possessions can take possession of the possessor." Before he died, Mazarin shuffled sadly through his collection, wearing a nightcap and camel's-hair wrapper, and left the room saying, "Goodbye, dear pictures that I have loved so well and which have cost me so very much...
...Labor Day, Southworth's boys met the second-place Brooklyn Dodgers in a battle that Boston historians may some day rank with Bunker Hill. With the help of six hits by Alvin Dark, Spahn won the 14-inning opener, 2-1, and Sain took the nightcap, 4-0. That dropped the Dodgers four games behind (and started them on their subsequent course down the league ladder...