Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among those who studied with Harvard's late Paul J. Sachs, no fewer than 16 became U.S. museum directors and curators.* The son of Samuel Sachs, a founder of the Wall Street firm Goldman, Sachs & Co., the 5-ft.-tall connoisseur started his career as a banker and wore a pearl stickpin. But his purchases were not at all conservative, ranging from Rembrandt to Saul Steinberg, Ben Shahn and Alexander Calder. He bought them all, mainly their graphic works, and used his collection to teach two generations to appreciate...
...marriage. While Harold was going everywhere-meeting here with Duff Cooper, there with Lord Beaverbrook, growling at Churchill for failing to muster sufficient opposition to Hitler-Vita remained secluded at Sissinghurst, the Tudor castle they had bought in Kent. She was a strangely masculine woman who wore breeches and gaiters in winter and linen slacks in summer, and who often said that her one enduring regret was that she was not born a boy. Still, Vita was enchantingly feminine where Harold was concerned. Her letters to him were filled with tenderness, as were...
...account of how President Kennedy personally selected the pink wool suit that Jackie wore that day in Dallas because, according to the New York Daily News, he wanted to make sure she would show up "the cheap Texas broads...
...Walter," as he refers to himself throughout his immense narrative? The reader finds that he wore a top hat (which he did not always bother to remove), that he lived mostly in London but traveled widely, that he was married, that he occasionally appeared at dinner parties where titled people were present, that he was rich enough to spend 20 golden sovereigns (today's equivalent: about $350) for a woman's favor. He mentions friends only if they went to the same brothel, and his wife only as "that woman" - a hazard to be circumvented. Sympathy goes...
Harvard's middle three players found the Cadets annoying. Gordie Black was stunned in the first two games, 6-15, 5-15, by a slamming serve. The Crimson's number six man then slowed down the match, wore out his opponent, and pulled out the last three games...