Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard's other points will probably come from the breaststrokers, led by sophomore Tim Chetin, and from the divers-Dave Silver, Tom Wallace, and Dick Eisenberg...
...Bernsteins' noblesse oblige. But to treat the Panthers' predicament as equally amusing- "Lenny reaches up from out of the depths of the easy chair and hands him [Don Cox] a mint . . . a puffed mint, an after-dinner mint, of the sort that suddenly appears on the table in little silver Marthinsen bowls, as if deposited by the mint fairy"- is to regard what is at best tragically macabre as a comic trifle...
Endless drinking. Nat has to abstain-his stomach has been upset lately. My grandmother, almost jogging around in her long silver-white dress, helps herself. So do I. So do my mother, my three uncles (all of whom are named Sidney), my aunts (Bert and Dot and Frances), and my married cousin Andy. Drinks in hand, we admire a collage of black-and-white family pictures leaning against the wall. Someone says that one of the little babies is me. There is a snapshot of my grandparents; the thirties; they look like Bonnie and Clyde...
...parlor interior is smaller but much lighter and brighter than Pewter Pot's. The menu is also twice as extensive. A silver-haired, grandmotherly woman will smile and bring you coffee while your waitress waddles over in her Elizabethan pantaloons. A glance down the menu reveals nothing exotic-just square Middle American fare. The only ethnic flavor maybe is a pale, faint hint of Pennsylvania Dutch that is suggested by the filling hot sandwiches and gravybread. The hot roast beef sandwich comes with a good bowl of French onion soup, the sopped bread floating on the top. Even...
This was an authentic affair of the old politics-one that featured a candidate for Lieutenant Governor who broke into Spanish song. Senator Bob Byrd of West Virginia describing Senator Joe Montoya of New Mexico as "a pearl of great price in a chalice of silver." and Representative Carl Albert of Oklahoma promising that when he becomes Speaker of the House next year, New Mexico's Congressmen-if Democrats, which they are not now-would surely get committee assignments "that will enable them best to use their talents in the interests of your state...