Word: weekender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulcinea Smith is a witless, bromidic, meddlesome but well-meaning woman with a mania for engineering other people's lives. She gives a weekend house-party, and manages to have a finger in every pie and a foot in every mouth. She tries to fix her husband's business deals and do a little matchmaking on the side. She spouts cliches and misquotations with amazing volubility. It is she who arranges a bridge game before supper because "it would be sort of soothing," and then proceeds to ask whether hearts are higher than spades and whether she "should discard from...
...another aid to students' 11th hour cramming, the Union will be open all weekend for study...
Reserve books for the weekend will circulate in Lamont at noon on Saturday and will be due at 9 a.m. Monday, according to Lamont officials. Reserve books circulating Friday will be due Saturday...
...Grays Hall Music Hour will be held in the morning this weekend, as well as during the afternoon, as usual. This Saturday and Sunday, from 9 to 11 a.m., students seeking refuge from exam studies may supplement their musical education...
...Nicholas Jenkins, the novel's narrator and a movie scriptwriter (as Powell himself once was), whose humor is a soft blackjack. When Widmerpool asks him what would be a suitable name under which to register for a "clandestine weekend" at a country hotel, Jenkins replies: "Mr. and the Honourable Mrs. Smith...