Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winthrop hopes to bottle up Kirkland's power plays with a rugged veteran line. The Puritans, who finished third last fall, have a well-balanced team and may be able to match the Deacon attack with their own version of the single-wing...
...Well, "slithy" means "litho and slimy." . . . You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word. --Through the Looking Glass...
...Anniversary celebration of Thomas and Emily Chanler in the drawing room of their Back Bay home. The gathering relatives give the impression that the Chanlers have been an exceedingly happy couple but that Thomas Chanler is something of a benevolent tyrant who at 70 still dictates the personal as well as business affairs of his large family. The time is then 1939, and for the remainder of the evening "I Know My Love" shuttles back and forth through the years of the Chanler's married life--1888, 1902, 1918, and 1920--to reveal that it has been a polite...
There is even a sudden and tragic suicide during the course of the evening which provides a lively and well-acted interlude to the comedy. The victim is a widely romantic Goethe-reader whom, I fear, Mr. Behrman will never translate from the Gallic...
...passengers kept themselves well amused. The ships had their bars and canteens, and since a ship at sea constitutes a sort of neutral no-man's-land, liquor and such comes tax free. Needless to say, it flowed freely. The foreign lines were more than happy to encourage the Americans to spend their money, especially when they spent dollars. The Dutch Line went so far as to mint some special ships money, script and coin, to keep the students from spending Dutch guilder...