Word: dessertation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whispered and joked on the dais, Elizabeth Fentress, the luncheon's organizer, says, "you might have thought they were old friends from high school." After lunch Helms draped his napkin over his arm like a waiter, grabbed the dessert tray from the center of the table and walked around to where Albright was sitting. "Madame Ambassador, may I serve you some dessert?" he said with a bow. By the time he escorted her to the airport that evening, they looked like they were on a date...
...that she was juggling." While the two women covered a wide range of subjects, Albright's press aide, Jamie Rubin, was called to the phone so often that he managed to swallow only a few bites of his dinner. The new Secretary of State, Gibbs noticed, generously shared her dessert with...
Although Loker is often crowded during meal times, at later hours--when people were primarily purchasing drinks and dessert--the stores were losing money, administrators said...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I'd hate to see us eat our dessert before we go on a diet...Nobody in the world would like to cut taxes more than me...But we've got to make sure we are operating responsibly...
...Woolf contrasts two meals. The first, at a men's college, consists of soles in "the whitest cream," partridges "with all their retinue of sauces and salads," potatoes "thin as coins but not so hard," and a "confection which rose all sugar from the waves" for dessert. The meal produces a conviction in all those gathered that "We are all going to heaven and Vandyck is of the company--in other words, how good life seemed, how sweet its rewards, how trivial this grudge or that grievance, how admirable friendship and the society of one's kind, as, lighting...