Word: puncheon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over 200 past and present editors are expected at 14 Plympton Street throughout the afternoon for "Puncheon." At 7 o'clock the company will shift to the dinning hall of Adams House for the banquet, at which George A. Weller '29 will serve as toastmaster...
Punch before lunch before lunch, thought Vag, how delightful. Luncheon, luncheon, puncheon before-I'll go, he decided. It wouldn't be right to cut his own roommate, even though that nutmeg floating...I can't, Vag said suddenly aloud, I can't drink that awful, awful awful any more. He braced himself for the shower, braced two or three times experimentally, then slumped into the chair and on with the radio. "And now our Morning Pops program, brought to you by Almeda Fiddle, presents Arthur Fiedler and the Bawwstun Pawwps in De Riccerio's "Dance of the..." Bang went...
...CRIMSON will welcome back its Alumni at an after-game puncheon this afternoon in the sanctum at 14 Plympton Street. Almost a hundred ex-editors and their families are expected to gather round the punch bowl to renew old acquaintances and to see how the CRIMSON has carried on in their absence. Tea will be served for those who have deserted the tradition...
...Puncheon will begin at 12 o'clock sharp. Bring your fair damozels even if you fail to get to the touch encounter...
...than that of the better-known "Mountaineer Poet," Jesse Stuart, Still makes his child's world as bright as a new dime. It was not a world in which dimes were common. On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree. When the mines along the creek closed one March, Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey mustache so long...