Word: tankards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SANDERS THEATRE, Nov. 19 (VP)--"Shea, I really heard a good one, Boyce," Huey stammered as he finished another tankard of Cahill. "It's rumored the Maroon and Gould's gonna play the Crimson if Jawn'll Lennon a few men. Just the same we'll Slater them and toss them into that bucket O'Brien...
...Know if we Campbell the double shift this time and get away with it but the game will be the McCoy or I'll Boachetti in the face for making me go to the game," the old Sage added with a Burke, but before he litted another tankard he leaned over to Asnavourian if the socre wouldn't be Harvard 14 Boston College...
...sons so delighted her museum. Armed with Mrs. Karolik's introductions to some of the oldest families, the museum's Decorative Arts Curator Edwin James Hipkiss and Collector Karolik knocked on doors from New Hampshire to Georgia, rooted out many an old desk, clock, silver tankard, portrait. While Curator Hipkiss pointed out good and bad features, Collector Karolik asked questions, absorbed information. To old New England and Philadelphia matrons, startled at the idea of selling American antiquity to a man with a Russian accent, they explained that every piece would go to the Boston Museum. Says Donor Karolik...
...fellow members (a joiner, a surveyor, a glazier, an Oxford scholar, a "young gentleman of some fortune") were not much older. Proceedings were secret and no minutes were kept, But Franklin revealed some of the study topics. Samples: "Whence comes the dew that stands on the outside of a tankard? . . . What unhappy effects of intemperance have you lately observed? ... Is self-interest the rudder that steers mankind?" For excessively dogmatic answers, members had to pay fines...
...conflagration got out of control and was licking hungrily at the tail-feathers of one of the stuffed pelicans that haunt the curie grotto. In the nick of time Coles Phinizy '42, head comie, cantered to the rescue armed with an old pewter tankard (dated at least 1639) and avowed its contents onto the flames, which immediately went...