Word: rambler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jinnah and Nehru walked together for five minutes through a bower of rambler roses and foxglove. Hopes rose. When a photographer suggested that they shake hands, neither made a move. Hopes fell. Over the negotiations brooded the spirit of Mohandas Gandhi, installed in a nearby lodge. "To succumb to pessimism," he said, "is like dying before one's appointed death...
...more money than myself; and that, though she had not had a relation hanged, she had 50 who deserved hanging." The Johnsons settled in London, were happy when they could see "three dinners ahead." Young Johnson wrote poems, blurbs, biographical notes, prize contests, a weekly column ("The Rambler") for the Gentleman's Magazine. He also became one of Britain's first Parliamentary reporters. Lazy and arrogant, he soon began composing Honorable Members' speeches entirely out of his own head ? taking cars "that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." When a friend exclaimed that Prime Minister...
...extra hours that could be spent touring the vineyard. But for the salt-water cruise addict the longer ocean trip is well worth while. Nantucket, like the Vineyard, has escaped the commercialization which has ruined so many other vacation resorts. Here you will find gray-shingled cottages covered with rambler roses, cobble stoned streets, and century-old houses with "widder's walks," where Nantucket wives once climbed to look for the return of the old whaling ships...
John Winthrop House has lost its traditional iron grasp on the House hockey league with its defeat by the speedy sextet from Dudley Hall. The season reached the halfway mark Monday night, with the Lowell Bellboys still leading and a Puritan-Rambler tie for second...
Dick Holtan scored eight of the Goldcoasters' 23 points, while Bill Wilcox scored seven more. On the losing side of the contest Irv Rudman scored seven and John Vergobbi scored four points to account for all but two of the Rambler tallies...