Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state dinner, Premier Poincare reviewed the War, saying; "In the noble part you played you derived your inspiration not only from your sense of patriotism but from your feeling of honor . . . neither you nor we ourselves will allow that part to be travested." General Pershing said: "An army grows to have a personality, a soul, just like anything else, and fortunately the soul of the A. E. F. has passed into the Legion...
...music and classical adaptations on Sunday evening, October 2. This concert will inaugurate the Sunday evening entertainments which the graduate secretaries of the Union plan for every Sunday during the coming year. It has long been a custom of the Union management to give the men a special steak dinner on Sunday evening. Nearly 400 men come and it is the purpose of the Sunday entertainments to furnish a pleasant hour immediately after supper. These entertainments will combine music with moving pictures, and will last about one hour,--between 7 and 8 o'clock...
...said that John Coolidge, on becoming a major, received a property grant from his grandmother's will. In the afternoon the three Coolidges were photographed with the 75- cavalrymen who have acted as summer White House guards. In the evening the President & Mrs Coolidge sat down to dinner with John Coolidge. In the middle of the table was a big cake. ¶The day before the President's departure for Washington, Rapid City editors addressed to him their farewells. The Democratic Gate City Guide, under the heading, "A Heart-Warm Fond Adieu," said: "In your own quiet...
...brilliantly attired in white flannels and kaleidescopic sweater, strolled among pajama-clad bathers and loiterers. He would don no beach-pajamas, saying that they reminded him of a familiar dream, that of appearing unclad at some social function. Mrs. Walker wore a yellow, fragile garment, a morning dress. At dinner Mayor Walker's trunk had not arrived; ill-dressed for the first time in his political career, he sauntered into the restaurant at his hotel, clad not in evening clothes but in a lounge suit. Cosmopolites, attracted by the Mayor's complete nonchalance, forgave this defect...
...Oppenheim likes best to write ? that is, dictate ? in the morning, but, that being his favorite time for golf, he has acquired the artificial habit of writing in the late afternoon until dinner time. He perennially roams European capitals and the U. S. picking up his cosmopolitan types and plots, chiefly in cafés and from hotel managers. His types and plots are everything. The plainest pigments of human nature are sufficient to color up the assorted shapes of the characters and show brightly as they race through skeins of intrigue...