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Despite the dramatic appeal, only a handful of Faculty members spoke at that meeting. One of them, Harvey C. Mansfield, professor of Government, asked the Faculty to consider the following scenario (as recorded in the minutes of the February 10 meeting): "A woman, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, grew up to be unspeakably beautiful and married a man as rich and as handsome as Otto Eckstein. She attended Brearley School, Radcliffe College, and she got a Ph.D. from Harvard. Then when she went on the job market, she was not considered as an individual with her merits...
...that he isn't loyal to the tobacco cause. Helms smokes (but does not always inhale) an occasional Lucky Strike. When others light up in his presence, he says, " 'Predate it." Indeed, Helms' single flamboyance is a maniacal Southern courtesy: he grabs every serving spoon, offers to carry every bag and sheaf in sight and opens every door. In fact, he does not just open a door; he sweeps his beneficiary through with a bow and a flourish...
...cottage in Surrey (for Ethel) and growing celebrity as a writer of comic short stories. But nobody ever takes a comic writer seriously, and, Saki complained, "a humorist is almost invariably expected to be funny for life." As World War I approached, he grew discontented with the coffee-spoon London world that had provided him with targets for satiric comedy, as well as with himself for belonging...
...ropers can buy lariats twisted especially for southpaws. The Rock Hound Shop offers fossils and crystals. Campers buy heavy iron skillets, lightweight canteens and water-purifying tablets; ranchers buy lousefly killer, sheep-branding liquid and cow vaccine. God knows who buys hundreds upon hundreds of Wall Drug gimcracks, from spoon holders to ashtrays. "People want a little something they can take back to Grandma," says Bill Hustead, 54, Ted's son. A Madison, Wis., woman on her way to Wyoming is agape, like most newcomers: "This blows me away. Who'd think there would be something like this...
...have too many flavors, then they mask each other and you end with a mishmash. But there was that very simple recipe that we did on television. You spoon a little bourbon whisky over vanilla ice cream and sprinkle on some finely powdered instant coffee. That makes a delicious dessert...