Word: refreshment
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...little man in white reappeared to see if he could refresh our by now watery highballs, and a young executive at a nearby table yelled at us to drink up. Noticing that the salesladies had disappeared, we took our chances, rose, and slipped back through the black door. It was but a short trip to the warmth and hominess of Filene's Basement...
Buses will start leaving for an all day outing at the seashore at 9:15 a. m. During the course of the day, '26 will have a chance to tour Salem, play soft ball, tour Manchester Harbor, play golf, tennis, and refresh with lunch and cocktails at the Essex Country Club. Meanwhile, the especially youthful will have a picnic at Magnolia Beach...
Huff. It was a grey day, with just enough rain to annoy but not enough to refresh; in the musty conference room, of Andrew Carnegie decor, it was just as depressing. Then in strode Harry Truman with his usual cheerful step. For a man deep in fateful decisions he looked singularly unruffled. Never the worrying kind, since war broke out in Asia, the President had, nevertheless, on several occasions, seemed weary. Last week, even the weariness was gone...
...Duke spent three years on the memoirs. As he acknowledges in his foreword, Charlie Murphy was his collaborator most of the time, prodding, suggesting, editing and cajoling, in Paris and at Cap d'Antibes. To help refresh Windsor's memory, Murphy supplied him with digests of diaries, court calendars, newspaper clippings, books and interviews with other actors in the royal drama. (The Duke himself had saved a bale of state and unofficial papers and albums of his own photographs of the historic days.) Then, while a secretary recorded every word, the Duke reminisced...
...high blood pressure. Asked the doctor: "What have you been doing?" When the patient answered that he had just spent an hour with Bob Woodruff, the doctor said: "Oh just go home and go to bed. That's all you need." Woodruff rarely relaxes, but likes to refresh his pauses with Martinis...