Word: porters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know about beer pong, or funnels, or Everclear, choosing instead to spend our time at awkward dances and single-sex sleepovers. But while we were crowding around the punch bowl in the school gym and playing video games in our basements, 15-year-old Rachel E. Porter was stuck watching drunken friends throw up all over themselves. She describes a particularly “traumatic” incident at the annual Dunster House goat roast, when a friend vomited right in front of her after drinking too much...
Rachel, a freshman in high school, is the youngest daughter of the Dunster House Masters, IBM Professor of Business and Government Robert B. Porter and Anne R. Porter. Unlike most of her peers, who are tucked safely away in private apartments or houses, Rachel lives in the midst of college students, and she’s seen her share of “people a little too out of control.” Despite the shock, Rachel still has her sights set on coming to Harvard...
Junior captain Vincent Porter, Johnson, and senior Genny Tulloch skippered the Crimson trifecta with junior Ruth Schlitz and sophomores Kristen Lynch and Emily Simon crewing...
...Porter and Schlitz steered the A-division to seventh place...
...cabaret performer whose combination of swank elegance and boyish exuberance became a symbol of Manhattan sophistication, drawing glitterati from Woody Allen (who featured Short in two movies) to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; in New York City. His Great American Songbook repertoire included stylish, raspy celebrations of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Fats Waller. After first playing professionally at the age of 11 as the "Miniature King of Swing," he became a fixture for 36 years at New York's Carlyle Hotel Cafe, where he would have opened its 50th anniversary season...