Word: dine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made "a parliamentary inquiry." Why, he asked, should a majority of the Representatives appointed to confer on the Tax bill (when it comes back to the House from the Senate), not represent the majority which had just passed the bill? Though it was dinner time, and he loves to dine, Speaker Nicholas Longworth smiled at this delay. "For the time being," said he, "the Chair would say he would regard that question as being more Democratic than parliamentary...
...asked everyone to join him at dinner on his yacht which is lying in the harbor. Some of the ladies have demurred through lack of confidence in the count. One of these ladies, Miss Harriet Perkins, confers with Septimius. Septimius suddenly discovers that he would much like to dine with Miss Perkins. He suggests that there is nothing wrong about a wholesale acceptance of the count's kind invitation. Soon all are aboard The Vanguard, most sumptuous yacht of current fiction...
...ejection from the Senate, Theodore Roosevelt refused to attend a club dinner in Chicago until an invitation to Mr. Lorimer was withdrawn. Said Mayor Thompson : "Roosevelt is riding for a fall. He will never get to the White House again. I predict that 'Billy' Lorimer will dine with a (rood Republican President in the White House. And I hope I'm there...
...appeared that Carol's valet, knowing his master's fiery temper, had concealed all knowledge of the theft. He had, two weeks previously, he said, been accosted on the street by an extraordinarily goodlooking young woman. She had invited him to dine and presumably to wine. He accepted the invitation. . . . Next morning, the valet continued, he woke up with a bad headache to discover that the correspondence, including his own, was gone. His letters were subsequently returned, except one which contained the names of people who had visited the Prince at his Orne Villa...
...actors' club in the popular sense.* The few that love it go there; a very few live there. There are card rooms and pool tables; soft chairs for reading; writing desks. In the back is a small garden around which runs a veranda where the members dine in summer. The club is always quiet, although from the peculiar demands of its actor members it stays open late at night. In these days Don Marquis may be often seen there; Jules Guerin, the painter; Otis Skinner; John Barrymore when he is in town; O. P. Heggie; and many another. Ladies...