Word: dine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Kissam Vanderbilt, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Mr. & Mrs. Conde Nast, Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Zukor, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Grab and the Sheriff of New York County. Maitre d'Hotel Rene Black, "Master of Forty Sauces," hovered majestically. Quick was the Press to pick up this dining place as a likely morsel for public fun. Its menu prices were broadcast: chicken okra soup 65?, baked lobster thermidor $2, lamb stew $1.70, royal squab en crapaudine, $2.75, baked potato 450, coffee 45?, demi tasse 50?. Jokesters insisted that the park air was still free and that the poor did not have...
...with a contract for the life story of Alfred Emanuel Smith tucked snugly away in his safe. Last week something occurred to bring forth the question: Will Editor Lorimer soon be "one up" on Editor Long? That something was this: To the White House went Editor Lorimer, there to dine with President Hoover, then to spend the night in a White House guest chamber. Over the dinner table, and later, up in the second story White House den, President and Editor talked. What they talked about, no one knows. From the Executive Offices came no statement. To newsgatherers Editor Lorimer...
...near dinner time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says, 'Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at 5, gentlemen.' 'So do I,' says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch: 'Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen? I rather think, so far as I am concerned, gentlemen, -I say, I rather think...
...ordered the plaintiff to leave in order to save his other guests from further embarrassment." In his declaration Plaintiff McLean said that "the plaintiff did not attend a dinner at the Belgian Embassy referred to in the article hereinafter complained of and did not at such a dinner dine 'too well' and did not annoy any guests at such dinner nor shock said guests and did not subject the Belgian Ambassador to embarrassment by reason of his conduct and was not requested to leave such dinner...
...more heavily liquored. And after a meal what is their favorite liqueur? Creme de menthe! I suppose because they like the green color and sickly sweetness." Asked what wines he would serve at a dinner of connoisseurs, Mr. Reeves-Smith quickly replied, "If some men were coming in to dine with me, we would have Sherry with the soup, Moselle with the fish, and then we should really begin-we should start drinking clarets!" If to some tyros "claret" means the cheapest sort of vinegary red wine, it means to the initiate a splendorous ascending scale of Bordeaux reds, culminating...