Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family, my husband is the subscriber and I am the reader of TIME. He says there is no use for him to read it because I memorize it as soon as it comes and tell it to him at the dinner table. I assure him that I give him only teasers but I strongly suspect him of superficiality because he doesn't read every word every week...
They "crashed" the Army & Navy Club so probably they "crashed" someone's dinner party at the Manila Hotel in order to make the disputed introductions. Ill manners should not be advertised...
...friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there is no nonsense about either them or him. In short, he is a typical product of Victorianism: ultraconservative, even to attending church regularly and dissecting the sermon at a heavy mid-day dinner, decorously genial, upright-no breath of scandal has ever touched his life-and painstakingly methodical...
...England, the first thing he did was to marry his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, the granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood. The next was to publish the journal of his voyage. This made him recognised as a brilliant and important naturalist; he and the wife were invited to distinguished dinner parties which annoyed Charles Darwin. He soon stopped going to them and spent the next four years studying species at Downe, the eight years after that perusing the habits and character of barnacles. After this, he was ready. For four years, 1855-59, he wrote The Origin of Species. Until its publication...
...annual winter meeting of the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, for dinner and the reception of new members, will be held at the Union next Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock, it has just been announced by Professor W.G. Howard '91, Secretary of the Chapter...