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...French Line" a list of patronesses who sponsored a farewell party for Guinan & Gang in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Paris.? This was the first, the only Guinan party at which there were no "suckers." No guest paid a cent. Guinan & Gang furnished mirth, French Line chefs a buffet supper. Curfew was at 2 a. m., earliest ever for a Guinan party. The Belmontized farewell had the effect of toning-up Guinan & Gang, but aboard the Paris her kids did a dance ("charity concert") in which each carried two fans. To the eyes of three clergymen passengers, who protested...
...Buffet luncheon...
...tariff on U. S. exports will be further upped (Mr. Bennett being determined to batter down the U. S. tariff wall eventually by reprisals); and next month Mother Britain will come in for a buffet when Canada's provincial premiers meet for a Dominion Conference. As foreshadowed in the Speech from the Throne this historic conclave will sever virtually the last restraining bond and make Canada completely free of domination by London. This it will do by revoking the act which makes His Majesty's Privy Council in London the court of last resort in Canadian litigation. Once...
...receiving line at the ball from 10 to 11.30 o'clock will be composed of Mrs. A. C. Hanford, Mrs. William S. Sims, Mrs. R. T. Lyman, Mrs. W. S. Sturgill, Mrs. A. L. W. Movius, and Mrs. B. B. Wygant. A buffet supper will be served at 11.45 o'clock in the Blue Room of the hotel...
...plumbers had removed a stuffed badger from the innards of my open plumbing fixture . . . . a pretty notion of a weekend, just getting the, old grad back and doing a job on him . . . . what about my reputation? . . . . last year you know damn well you pushed me through the cold buffet in the Copley dining room . . . . yes and said I was cockeyed . . . . well maybe we had, but not enough to make a man fall through a cold buffet . . . . just gratuitously as it were . . . . yes and what about my job . . . . I can't go off on these toots the way you students...