Word: pewter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boarding house. The authorities of the New England Historical Society state that rumors had it that the place "was used as a fraternity house." Students who study Economics in 1946 may verify this by counting the pegs in the ceiling of the Economics room, pegs on which hung heavy pewter beer mugs...
When Brevet Major Thayer was named Superintendent of West Point in 1817, the 15 -year-old Academy was rotten with nepotism, sycophancy, bad teaching, worse discipline. When Thayer arrived, all the faculty was under arrest, and shambling, dictatorial Captain Alden ("Old Pewter") Partridge was holding the post singlehanded...
...Yankees, was ejected from two schools (once for exploding homemade bombs), expelled from two colleges. Yale classmates were not overly surprised when youthful Lucius swept a tableful of dishes to the floor of Billy Bander's Eating House, crying: "Come, come, Bander, give us your best delft and pewter, Bander, none of this rude crockery!" But Yale authorities were annoyed when Lucius appeared conspicuously in a box at the Hyperion Burlesque Theater, cried: "I am Professor [Henry Hallam] Tweedy of the Yale Divinity School!" and tossed an empty bottle to the stage. Shortly thereafter, Lucius left Yale and entered...
...rate of two licking inches every wet hour. The Allegheny lipped over and poured cold, dirty water onto the highways and down mine shafts-where sneezing pumps fought for a while and then gave up trying to keep the pits dry. The coal cars stood empty under a pewter sky . . . miles of them on the rights of way as coal mines sent their men home to salvage drenched belongings. Altogether 50,000 people felt the flood in their homes...
...Flynn Problem. One thing Edward Joseph Flynn, of The Bronx, can do: hold The Bronx fast as the great Democratic fortress. The Bronx is his own, his native land, where the pewter-haired, craggy-faced, hazel-eyed Irishman is master of nearly all he surveys from his ninth-floor terrace apartment...