Word: dessert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissatisfied listeners finally agree to let the new man have another chance on the following night, advising him, that he should have an extra good one then. Of course they do not really mean this but as the others rise and leave the room, the new member finishes his dessert wondering whether or not they...
...happened that the Dean of Chatteris entertained a few select clerical friends at his deanery house. That they drank uncommonly good port wine, and abused the Bishop over their dessert are very likely matters, but with such we have nothing at present to do. Our friend, Dr. Portman...
...Christmas Eve the President and Mrs. Hoover were giving a party to the children of his Secretariat. Dessert was just being served when Secretary Lawrence Richey whispered something in the President's ear. Quickly the President arose, put an overcoat on over his dinner jacket, hurried out of doors to see flame-shot clouds of smoke billowing from his office building, 200 ft. from the White House proper...
...Commissioner," said burglarious Ibrahim, "kept my body without nourishment and my soul in torment for five days. On the sixth he called me into his office. On the table was a platter of tasty chicken with rice, a creamy dessert and a dish of applesauce. All of these things were to be mine if I would make a complete confession. Because of my hunger I told him a lot of things that were not true...