Word: dine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell, who expresses deep regret at the passing of Memorial, attributes it to an increasing habit of "eating about" at quick-lunch counters, cafeterias and the like. This is one of those explanations that need explaining. If it is true that civilized man cannot live without dining, it is doubly true that the hours of prandial relaxation have a peculiar value in undergraduate life. Dr. Lowell speaks of Memorial as a place where "men could meet together constantly, have club tables and get the advantage that comes in college life from association with a group of comrades around...
...White House: Dec. 18-Cabinet Dinner. Jan. 1-New Year's Reception. Jan. 8-Diplomatic Reception. Jan. 15-Diplomatic Dinner. Jan. 22-Judiciary Reception. Jan. 29-Supreme Court Dinner. Feb. 12-Speaker's Dinner. Feb. 19-Army and Navy Reception. The President and Mrs. Coolidge will also dine once each week with a Cabinet officer, beginning with Secretary and Mrs. Hughes and following through the list in order of seniority...
...host- a taller man of eloquent tongue, equally slender, with face even more austere, with clear-some said cold- eyes. The entering guest paused only a moment on the threshold. Then Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman of the one-time War Industries Board, close friend of Woodrow Wilson, entered to dine with Calvin Coolidge and presumably to discuss farm problems...
...effect of this glorification is unpredictable. Few princesses' heads have been turned in seeing themselves mimicked by plumply imposing contraltos. Peasant women seem noticeably unaffected by the rythmic nothings which curiously garbed damse's waft across the footlights. But in the case of the dine and-dance, belle, the consequences are most grave. If the stage prototype of their kind becomes immediately and universally popular, who can persuade the girls not to trill and warble? They all act already, but a working-girl opera, such as Mr. Kahn proposes to inflict upon the docile audience, will ruin the hearts...
...stirred by the affluent cars and apparel of their humble guests to set up a hotel under a skilled extartioner; and that voluntary contributions have not sufficed to maintain the momstery. But the often fleeced American traveler is likely to suspect that the monks have found that the "Dine and Dance" electric flasher attracts the crowds more strongly than barrels of saints' rings and martyrs' knuckles...