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Word: buffets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday evening there will be a buffet supper and informal discussion for those who wish to stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Y-H-P PROGRAM AND AGENDAS ANNOUNCED | 3/23/1938 | See Source »

...buffet was piled $1,800 worth of cake, pastry and hors d'oeuvres, including the Washington Monument in sugar and a reproduction of Mt. Vernon. On another were the makings of 10,000 cocktails. Standing beside his loyal friend, Senator Sherman Minton, High Commissioner McNutt greeted 3,000 guests as they passed down the receiving line. Conspicuously absent were most higher officials of the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet, which was represented only by Attorney General Homer Cummings and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper. Earlier in the day, in the presence of newsreel photographers, the guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: First Robin | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Noble Sisson and his colored orchestra will play at the Deacons' winter formal dance on Friday, February 18. A buffet supper will be served at 1 o'clock, with dancing scheduled from 10 to 3 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

...Buffet supper will be served at midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/9/1937 | See Source »

...what you'd call a cad." Besides a cad, one learns that he is an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, an ex-Paris tourist guide, an ex-husband, a part-time painter, a would-be cinema director. He lives in a trailer on a vacant lot next to a buffet known as Spike's Place. Spike (Edgar Kennedy) calls him to the telephone by firing an air rifle at a gong hung in the trailer window. His connection with Margit, until they make a deal, is limited to a friendship with her Bohemian sister Irene (Florence Rice) and the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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