Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whose emotions the partial proctor gazed without a thought of publics or of suspensions, but with a sigh that by his unnatural employment he had cut himself adrift from all who had any right to fall upon his neck and greet him - hic - dear old fellow; the same old dinner-procession, whose dignified, slow-moving head gave no indication of the riotous life displayed by its swaying tail; and finally, the ancient scholar was there, who every year nobly refuses his dinner, that he may spend the afternoon in exhorting the lazy scapegraces lolling in the halls...
Then comes the dinner! How charming! work has grown merriest play...
...came to see foot-races or ball-playing, and for the next two hours dinner occupied the minds of all. In some cases we fear it was rather the minds than the stomachs, for never before in Springfield hotels had the demand for food so exceeded the supply. As early as 12.30 the advance guard of the exodus to the river started, and from that time until 4 the roads leading to either bank were thronged with every description of vehicle the ingenuity of man has devised for the last century. Every horse, carriage, and passenger was profusely decorated with...
...annual Commencement dinner will take place on the 25th of the present month. Colonel John D. Washburn, of Worcester, has been chosen Chief Marshal for the occasion. E. Rockwood Hoar, the President of the Association of Alumni, will preside at the dinner, and Rev. Charles E. Grinnell, of Charlestown, at the Junior dinner. It is hoped that next year, instead of the present cramped space, the dining-room in Memorial Hall can be used...
...preferred to good prose, expends his energies in putting his thoughts into verse, with more or less regard for metre, forgetting that really good prose is seldom written, and that poetry of a certain stamp is always forthcoming, be the occasion a golden wedding in the country, a military dinner in town, or anything else. The opposite fault - that of writing in the form of prose what would sound better in verse - is sometimes committed, though not often; there are certain ideas, or certain ways of treating subjects, which, we feel, properly belong to poetry, and which, though they would...