Word: sweets
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Meanwhile, back across the river in Lauderdale, the Church of Christ preacher who led the opposition to alcohol in Colbert, Lamar Plunket, said the county was in sorry shape. "Alcoholism has increased," he said over a plate of barbecue, turnip greens, pinto beans and sweet potatoes. "Our churches are getting more calls for clothing, for food, because people, once they get on this thing, they're going to have it even if the family goes hungry. And I can't verify this personally, but I've had reports of nude-type dancing in some of the bars...
...this unromantic age of professional collegians, it is kind of funny and sort of sweet that people still believe in Jack Armstrong, All-American, or at least want to believe. Georgia Football Hero Herschel Walker has been Frank Merriwell himself. Walker gained more yards (5,259) than any other runner ever has in three seasons, and more than everyone but Heisman Trophy Winners Tony Dorsett (Pittsburgh, '76) and Charles White (U.S.C., '79) has in four. When the Heisman went to Walker this winter, some considered it two years overdue. He also ran track and dreamed of the Olympics...
...situation in the early stages. Whitaker fell in love with her." The merciless over-coverage of Diana (including, Whitaker boasts, an 80-m.p.h. car caper in which he drove alongside the car she was driving while a photographer snapped her picture) showed the English public a maiden so sweet and wistful that the Prince would have seemed a blackguard had he failed to propose...
...that neither Greek pan pipes nor Elizabethan sack buts could ever carry a really good Broadway tune. Richard Rodgers' score is overflowing with delightful melodies that are by turn jaunty and sweet. Harnessed to Lorenz Hart' witty and graceful lyrics, they pull the show along at an exhilarating clip, and in between numbers, George Abbott's book provides just the right mix of Shakespearean vaudeville and vaudevillian Shakespeare. Large chunks of iambic pentameter are carelessly tossed across the stage, only to be nimbly undercut by an outrageously topical reference or a wonderfully bad pun. And since its 1938 world premiere...
Revenge is always sweet. Revenge against Yale is even sweeter. And of course, securing first place in the Ivy Division of the BCAC and the accompanying guarantee of home ice for the first round of playoffs isn't too bad either...