Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naomi James, 29, a native of New Zealand, made the voyage in 272 days aboard the Express Crusader, accompanied by her kitten Boris and a stack of Rod Stewart tape recordings. Upon hearing about her feat, Explorer Tristan Jones, who has circumnavigated the globe three times, urged club officials to wire congratulations to James. When they refused, he huffily withdrew his application for membership and denounced the members as "bloody old fogies who've gone around the world once in a steamer...
Lowe has contempt for most of rock's superacts, running from Elton John, Rod Stewart and Grace Slick of Jefferson Starship ("She's like somebody's mom who's had a few too many drinks at a cocktail party") to megagroups like Kansas, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Yes ("Impotent music. They've got about as much to do with rock 'n' roll as Walter Cronkite"). He is impatient with the power-pop designation. "They say I'm the whiz kid of the three-minute single...
...some of them take notes on the sheep wisdom being dispensed by experts. "If you comb the fecal matter out of your fleeces, they will bring higher prices," Bob Stewart, a professional wool buyer for Homestead Woolen Mills, explains to a small crowd, while everyone furiously scribbles down every word...
...Stewart...
...case but not quite prepared for Copey's next staged event. Several weeks later, Copey ushered in Robert C. Benchley (Class of '12), who wrote themes for Copey many years before. Benchley, a great writer of humor, began dead-pan to read from the latest work of Donald Ogden Stewart, a fellow practitioner. In high dudgeon, Copey broke in, and said, "No, no not that. We don't have to hear the words of a Yale man. You know perfectly well why I brought you here. Tell us about those two anarchistic bastards." So Benchley said, "Okay, I will...