A big pitcher of iced tea on the ironing board, Hank Williams on the radio, or Little Jimmy Dickins (2).
"I call him Plummie for 'Pelham'; it's Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, you know," Mrs. Wodehouse reveals over a big pitcher of Martinis at the expat couple's Remsenburg, Long Island, home.
The Southern Pastoral, in which the children play barefoot in the pastures and the summer is always called summertime, remains one of our strongest forms: Calpurnia had placed three tumblers and a big pitcher full of lemonade inside the door on the back porch, an arrangement to ensure their staying in the shade for at least five minutes.
"Well, this president got a great big pitcher of lemonade and he's busy turning it into a lemon economy".
"If you have a big pitcher and it's full of liquid, it can be challenging to use," she explained.
Waylon Jennings, "Crying," the man's voice one big pitcher of water being relieved.
Also, a large pitcher of ice water.
Rowdy crowds make themselves happy with big pitchers of beer, bloody marys, and a smoker-friendly atmosphere.
And there were big pitchers of martinis on every table, and all kinds of backslapping and admiring references to Ronald Reagan, and long speeches.
Many of the biggest stars of the era have been outed as pathetic cheats: Roger Clemens, the biggest pitcher of the era; Mark McGwire, the biggest home run basher of the era; and Alex Rodrigues, the biggest hitter and over-all talent of the era.
Whereas once the sports bar was content to evoke, say, the Pittsburgh Steelers' beef-jerky-gnawing quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, the new model is Tom Brady of the New England Patriots: urbane, dapper, conversant in topics that don't involve statistics and unembarrassed by a big fat pitcher of pink.
