Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once popular Poor Richard's Year Book, this volume contains as much information as its prototypes. It is, besides, brought right up to date, so that the information contained between the covers represents, as far as possible, a collection in permanent form of all standard subjects for tea and dinner table small talk provided by such magazines as Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, with even a touch of the Hound and Horn...
...meet, which will begin at 7.30 o'clock, following a dinner at the Liberal Club, the University chess players will play in the following order: Captain Chevalier, Leo Palier 21, B. J. Reines '28, G. F. Gravells '28, President of the club, Gordon Berry, F. B. Robinson '31, E. J. Davis '29, A. W. Couiman 1G.Ed., H. B. Wells '29, and John Benson...
...write and occasionally I take a sip, in order that I may establish a sort of personal relation with my generous unknown friend. Whoever you are and wherever you are I should like to see you if ever you come to New Haven; you must come over for dinner. I do not care for stimulants as a rule--indeed I rarely touch them--but this sheems to have hit the spot. My friends tell me I haave all the qualities of a good drinker but then you know the things your friends will tell...
Brunswick--Dinner Dance--8 to--3 o'clock. The flesh pots of Egypt...
...solicitous parent was distressed by the lack of intellectual interests shown by the young friends his boys were bringing to the house. "The only thing they talk about is athletics!" He strove to counteract this influence in his own family by the reading of good literature every evening after dinner--not without success; and he later prepared several volumes of graded selections of the best literature, to provide other parents' children with material for the cultivation of a taste for good reading; for, "good reading," he said, "was the most generally available and one of the most efficient means...