Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will hear a good deal of it on the left wing of the Labor Party, but in almost every speech I give, I say this ((Conservative)) Party and these people are pro-American, and before I finish the sentence a round of applause breaks out. People are enormously appreciative of the generosity of the American people and of their fundamental love of liberty. I tend to regard the United States as Europe on the other side of the Atlantic, which of course is really very much what...
...terms again today, including the bride and groom." A corrosive reviewer, Parker once slated a hapless author as a "writer for the ages. For the ages of four to eight." She could be equally cruel to her nearest and dearest. When Alexander Woollcott, a fellow jouster at the Algonquin Round Table, recalled an afternoon of book signing with the smug rhetorical question "What is so rare as a Woollcott first - edition?", Parker replied deadpan, "A second edition." Presumably it was the memory of such moments that prompted Woollcott to term her "so odd a combination of Little Nell and Lady...
...19th century, Ueno came to the conclusion that "myths about inbreeding are exaggerated." Problems arise "only if there is a bad gene to start with." Although Ueno did not advance to the finals of the competition, she made a very respectable showing by finishing in the "honors" group, the round of 300 out of the initial...
Then comes the lull, when we wait for the Spectacle to begin. From nowhere, the shell comes into view. A round of applause, A gentle docking from coxswain Jerome Chao...
...Sneakin' into the 350th Ball. After I failed to get in on the first round of ball tickets last fall, I did what any good American would do and took matters into my own hands. An afternoon of hunting down the matching paper in the copy shops in Cambridge, a few dollars at Gnomon copy, a little cut and paste, and Voila! 40 tickets to Harvard's 350th ball produced for less than the price of a single ticket. Add the drinks I stole from the bar, and I must have cost Archie Epps at least...