Word: sip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what the score, a sizable group of spectators would retire from the stand as if by signal. Jay Gould would stamp through the festive crowds to the court-tennis court without so much as a glance at the lawn-tennis champions. The champions themselves paused between games to sip a Scotch & soda, a conviviality not unwelcome to the youthful Irish shackers (ball boys) in their cocky yachting caps, red sweaters and disreputable trousers...
...pretty 28-year-old mother was a cho rus dancer who had been alcoholic for about ten years." The little boy passed most of his time with his mother "including the afternoons and evenings she spent in the back room of the neighborhood bar. He demanded a sip of beer from each glass. . . . He would go from customer to customer asking for sips and begging for nickels to play Margie in the jukebox (Margie was his mother's name)." His trouble, according to the doctor: an oedipus complex which caused him to imitate his mother. He forgot all about...
...Boston Pop's Concert this Sunday night. It is Cruft Officers' Night; your friends will be there to spend a fine evening listening to the delightful music of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It's refreshing change from Math to Music; from formulas to fantasy. Lot's sip a cool during, pass a pleasant word, and share the sweet strains together on Sunday night...
...many like to combine these pleasant sounds with the sweet strains of a fine orchestra. Sunday night, May 23rd, is Officers' night at "Pops," a concert of popular and semi-classical music by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Arthur Fielder. The whole gang will be there to sip, relax, and listen; so be sure to see Mrs. Duncan in Craft, Room 324, to reserve a table with your friends...
...hotel came to be a focal point for high society, for the world of letters and sport. J. P. Morgan Sr. walked from his home on 36th Street to sip coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany Boss Richard Croker gave small dinners behind closed doors, invariably ordering terrapin. President McKinley fell heir to the Cleveland suite; Jay Gould, Senator George Hearst and P. T. Barnum made it their headquarters...