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Word: buffet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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They will be served a buffet supper at which members of the dance committee and their partners will be present. This has been made possible through the kindness of Mrs. Melvin T. Copeland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CADETS AND OFFICERS FROM KARLSRUHE WILL ATTEND DANCE FRIDAY | 5/17/1934 | See Source »

...guest card. The Beach Club is a large homey collection of white frame buildings on Lake Worth, not far from the yellow railway station where many of its visitors put their private cars on sidings. It is chartered to operate as a private organization to run a buffet "and such games of amusement as the managers and members may from time to time agree on." The games of amusement reputedly net Colonel Bradley $1,000,000 per year, although the receipts have been lower since Depression and last year the croupiers and other attendants took a cut. Nevertheless, the Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Edward of Lexington | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...slain Indian Metacom (King Philip): "Metacom--mighty warrior!--mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece of clay! . . . . Where was that 'Great Cause' now? Right before them, sunk in the mud, so they would have answered. But how little they knew!" After all, how could they have known that Miss Sears would resurrect...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/27/1934 | See Source »

...Buffet lunch for Graduates, Undergraduates and their guests in Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell, and Winthrop Houses. There will be an assessment of 50 cents per plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS DAY MOVED UP TO WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, THIS YEAR | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Pratt Family, prolific seed of the late famed Charles Pratt, co-founder of Standard Oil Co.. held its annual Christmas reunion, as it has done for nearly 40 years. Some 120 of Charles Pratt's chil dren, grandchildren, their cousins, aunts, and in-laws assembled for buffet supper at the Manhattan home of Herbert Lee Pratt, one of Charles's five sons, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and Socony-Vacuum Corp. Among the guests: the George Dupont Pratts (art patron), the Frederic Bayley Pratts (president of famed Pratt Institute in Brooklyn), the Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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