Word: salmagundi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woke up that morning with caterpillars in my stomach because this was the big day-the season opener for the Crimson touch football team. It was an especially momentous occasion because, for the first time in history, the Crimson was playing against a team of girls, the Pine Manor Salmagundi...
...ride out, we started getting excited. We wondered what kind of personnel the Salmagundi might have. Just before we got there, my roommate-chauffeur-driver asked about a football. "Did you bring a football, Beach?" I didn't have much to offer in the way of an answer, but since everyone was looking at me as I sat there crunched in the back seat, I felt I had to say something. "Ah," I said. Actually, it was a pretty informative reply. After I got verbally castigated by my teammates, driver Dan pointed out that the home team is suposed...
...place was a little bit of Las Vegas, but without any gambling tables yet, and just two minutes from Chicago's O'Hare Airport. A salmagundi of Italian marble, Japanese carpet, matched rosewood, Hawaiian monkeypod wood, gold foil and tropical fish, the Sahara Inn is like a movie set for a dream sequence in a musical starring George Jessel and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Complete with boot-shaped swimming pool, fully grown palm trees and a still uncompleted 1,400-seat auditorium, it cost $10.8 million, and is staffed with waitresses appropriately undressed...
...women buy shirts, gloves and salmagundi for the hobby chests. About 95% of all men's dressing gowns and slippers, which men rarely buy for themselves, are sold at Christmastime. Cowed by decades of jokes, few women buy ties any more...