Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...grandfather, sat on the couch across from the desk, by the window overlooking the shuffleboard courts, the swimming pool, the beach-his haunts on normal days. He seems to be a tall man (although he really isn't), perhaps because he is still so fit and dapper. Bright blue shirt, ruddy tan face, white hair combed back. He is much quieter than my grandmother, a little hard of hearing now, and is very good with a cigar. You might say he plays George Burns to his wife's Gracie Allen...
...room for dancing had doors on one side that led out to the patio and the swimming pool. By the pool, I could look up and see all the tall, dwarfing white towers of Miami Beach. I wonder what I felt. Something indescribable. A plastic pool, plastic towers, but, high up, real stars. And, past the pool, a sudden drop to the beach itself. A big golden orange moon hanging above the ocean. Fierce waves crashing...
...mother, cousin, aunts and uncles were all outside now. Sid Lotenberg, in shiny tuxedo, and my mother, in a long dress, danced around the pool. He sang an old Rodgers and Hart song, "Isn't it Romantic?," as they performed what seemed a fine imitatation of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...
...Fine Arts. "No museum purchase funds can keep up with prices like that." Perhaps not. But Boston was sufficiently interested in the auction to discuss with Thomas Moving, director of New York's Metropolitan Museum, "half in jest, but half seriously," the idea that Boston and the Met pool their available funds to buy the Velásquez. The underbidder at Friday's auction, a firm of London dealers named Thomas Agnew. was rumored to be bidding on behalf of Washington's National Gallery...
...maintenance are cheaper and captains and crews can take over any ship without finding it unfamiliar. Ludwig cuts design and construction costs to the bone. Many Ludwig ships have exhaust pipes instead of funnels, which cost more. Few, if any, have air conditioning, and none has the swimming pool for the crew that is common on ships owned by less parsimonious...