Word: pond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least that is where the two were--on the middle of an iceflow in Stoneham's Spot Pond with their bicycles--when police discovered them and hauled both man and machine to shore with life preservers...
Critics were agreed on Gubler's genius. Said one: "The daring of a Picasso and the colors of a Bonnard." Said a German critic: "Most of the younger Swiss artists behave like goldfish in a sheltered pond . . . Gubler stands out among these goldfish like a pike." A visitor, who had flown from Paris to see the show, more aptly compared Gubler to a salmon that has produced remarkably after a terrific uphill climb...
...mornings he tried a few unsuccessful casts for bass in "Ike's pond," an artificial lake built at his suggestion on a visit in 1949. But Ike spent most of his time out on the golf course, dressed in flannel slacks, sport shirt and the Kelly green Augusta club jacket (its emblem: an outline of the U.S. with a red golf flag marking the location of Augusta). On two days when it rained, he played the course carrying an umbrella. His game was improving steadily as his nerves relaxed. One day he broke 90 for the first time since...
...Flowering of New England gives him the opportunity to denounce what he considers a cardinal sin--concentration by the critic on a writer's life rather than on his work. ("The book Walden in mentioned specifically, in four passing sentences though there is repeated reference to it as a pond.") Similarly, in a review of Bernard DeVoto's Mark Twain at Work, he ends with the thought that "DeVoto seems determined to prove through his tub-thumping exaggerations that he possesses every temper but the critical temper...
...John L. Pratt '53 climbed into a police car parked in front of Eliot House at 6:15 p.m. Saturday. Officer William Storey told them he was waiting for a fellow officer who was serving a summons. The pair did not leave, so Storey drove them to Fresh Pond and told them to get out. When they asked him to take them back to the College, he called the paddie wagon which took them to the Cambridge police station. They were detained by the police for four hours...