Word: brunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LUNCHEON OR LUNCH BUT NOT BRUNCH! advised Emily Post. It took her only ten lines to dismiss the custom as a "single-headed, double-bodied deformity 'standees' of at a lunch language" that counter but not "suggests the beauty of hospitable living." That was in the 1950 edition of Etiquette. The current edition takes a different view of brunch, calls it "a pleasant sort of informal, even casual entertaining," offers tips on how to dress and what to serve. Moving with the times, the post-Post posture simply acknowledges that going out to Sunday brunch with family...
...Orleans, for instance, there will be a brunch in honor of one or another New Orleans debutante every Sunday from now through Mardi gras. "I think people got tired of cocktail parties," says Mrs. Max M. Green, who gave a deb brunch at the New Orleans Country Club last week. In Chicago, when ever the Bears play at home, members of the Racquet Club gather for a brunch of Bloody Marys, eggs Benedict, codfish cakes and popovers, before bussing out to the football game. In San Francisco, Trader Vic's restaurant has made a tradition out of the annual...
...Home. Served from noon on ward, brunch has always been a natural next step for churchgoers after the 11 a.m. service. Increasingly, even for the clergy, the scene for brunch is shifting from the home to the neighborhood pub or midtown restaurant. The brunch bunch at Manhattan's Delmonico's has increased 150% in the three years since the hotel instituted the custom. Because it is located in the middle of the Rockefeller Center office complex, Irish-style Charley O's ought logically to be deserted on Sunday; instead, as many as 230 people swarm...
Everything--food, drink, transportation, and children--has been taken care of by the Reunion committee. There is breakfast at the Union, brunch at the Pudding, lunch in the Houses, and dinner on the indoor tennis courts. There is liquor--an estimated $80,000 worth--before and after everything. Busses run to Gloucester, to golf clubs, from Quincy House up the street to street to Sever Hall; cars stay parked in free spaces around the Yard...
...financial risk" for the home-state Milwaukee Braves. But the other teams barely blinked. Kansas City Owner Charles Finley made two trips to Stevens Point in a week. The Angels flew Rick to Palm Springs in Owner Gene Autry's private plane, gave him a tour of Hollywood, brunch in Bel Air, and dinner in Studio City. The New York Mets offered him everything but the seats in Shea Stadium, and the Yankees retaliated with a reported...