Word: dine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sociable man ashore. Tommy Hart likes to dine informally with pals at his hotel. He is amused at the rococo atmosphere of his suite. "First," he points out wryly, "they wanted to give me a suite all done up in pink and green satin, but I said 'No, I'd feel like a kept woman.' Now I feel like the Archbishop of Canterbury." At his informal suppers at the hotel, Tommy Hart always entertains some of the local socialite Filipinos. He deplores the Navy's social inbreeding, feels that much of the "Philippine problem...
...intelligentsia of France, England, and the United States. Till now there has been no adequate English biography of this philosopher-prophet, only a few commentaries by such authors as H. L. Mencken, whose book is more Mencken business than Nietzschean, and W. H. Wright, alias S. S. Van Dine, creator of Philo Vance...
...Society is designed to meet the problem of associating future creative scholars in a distinct body that will have an attraction for ambitious young men of talent. The Junior Fellows lunch together weekly and in addition they dine once a week with the Senior Fellows, Faculty members who are eminent in different fields
...street cleaner and there's no use reaching for the stars." Cagney loses the neighborhood strawberry blonde (Rita Hay worth) to a chiselling contractor (Jack Carson) and on rebound marries her girl friend (Olivia de Havilland). Later they visit the contractor, grown rich, where they dine under newfangled electric light. "Isn't it dangerous?" asks Olivia. Says Carson: "Not if you pay the bill...
...addition I have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food was obtained with out loss of a single food coupon. ... I have watched the great as they dine -Morrison, Beaverbrook, Duff Cooper and Eden among them...