Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to find a blank space on the Summer School's social calendar. If there isn't a dance, there is a Yard punch. Or a music hour. Or a square dance. Or a Tanglewood excursion...
...weekly Yard punch is undoubtedly the most characteristic social function. "The Summer School drinks about 600 gallons of punch," Miss Williston estimated...
...punches take place in the Widener quadrangle from 3 to 5 every Wednesday afternoon, beginning July 2. There is no charge. "Even tourists walking through the Yard will be served," the Social Director said. In case of rain, the punch will move to the porch of Memorial Church...
...bounced two miles in an old-fashioned buggy to a rodeo in Prescott, Ariz. (His comment: "I looked to see if they dressed the way cowboys do in the movies, but they dress better"), and in Williamsburg, Va.. true to the colonial spirit, he draped himself in a yard-square bib for a roaring good feast at the King's Arms Tavern...
...polished parquet floors, Bazin likes to philosophize on two great portraits. Titian's Francis I (who seems to be examining the jewel of his collection, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa) and Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV (loftily surveying the great expanse of the 300-yard-long Grande Galerie). Both have a right to their proprietary air. Bazin feels, since, along with Napoleon, they are among the Louvre's greatest benefactors...