Word: punchbowl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glamour Magazine has caught up with Carstairs Whiskey in the current issue and passed the punchbowl to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, associate professor of History, as "a man who cares." Sighting along the barrel of a trusty briar, he is pictured "getting the future in focus" in the current issue...
...tribe of Brazil the souls of the dead did not want to leave this earth, and offered stout resistance. When a man died, his relatives gathered food and liquor, heaped them around the grave. The neighbors marched round & round, blowing horns, shaking rattles, screaming, and helping themselves from the punchbowl...
...subway, Vag took a last look at all the shops, the shoe-shine boys, and the Yard buildings. He pictured himself coming back here, in a few years perhaps. Growing old while this place never changed. He pictured himself slightly paunchy, standing around the punchbowl at a reunion in fifteen years. Finally, Vag broke into Harvard Square and darted across to the kiosk. He noticed the new sign, "Subway to All Points." Well, that's where he was going...
From the same punchbowl that has refreshed visiting Cambridge celebrities from Anna Held to Tallulah Bankhead, the editors of Mother Advocate will serve ale to Somerset Maugham, famous English novelist, whose latest contribution to the movies. "The Moon and Sixpence," had its Boston premier last evening...
...fine homes on the heights above the city, in beach shacks near Waikiki, in the congested district around the Punchbowl, assorted Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Filipinos, Hawaiians and kamaainas (long-settled whites) were taking their ease. In the shallow waters lapping Fort De Russy, where sentries walked post along a retaining wall, a few Japanese and Hawaiians waded about, looking for fish to spear. In Army posts all over Oahu, soldiers were dawdling into a typical idle Sunday. Aboard the ships of the Fleet at Pearl Harbor, life was going along at a saunter. Downtown nothing stirred save an occasional...