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Word: dinners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York in 1888. On the way down in the boat John sat in the upper deck, regaling his crowd of "friends" until midnight brought a protesting officer. Upon arriving in New York, the mascot was draped in crimson flags and scarfs, taken all over the city, given dinner at the Hoffman House, and driven to the field in a coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John the Orangeman Catered Expertly to Collegiate Palates in Elegant Eighties--Was Colourful Mascot to Crimson Nines | 3/19/1927 | See Source »

...advantage even over other young gentlemen who start fashions in men's harberdashery, for the Princeton man cannot wear his swanl sport suit to the dinner table, not the Eli his fawn-colored flannels. Until the New Haven debutantes can persuade Chapel and High Street debutantes to give dinner parties, and until Princeton can move its Gothic walls within twenty minutes of Sherry's or the Bellevue- Stratford, the gentle sons of Harvard will continue to enjoy their advantages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEACON VS. CHAPEL STREET | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

...dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston at 7 o'clock this evening, the members of the 1927 hockey sextet will assemble for a banquet officially marking the end of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY LETTER MEN GET GOLD PUCKS AT DINNER TONIGHT | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

While I am quite aware that a college education should do more for a man than make him a good dinner companion, I have been curious about the matter ever since I overheard a famous hostess proclaim, "Whenever I want to brighten up a dinner, I look around for a Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

...believe it! If a man is a born bore no college in the world can make him a social success. And if a Harvard man attempts to conceal the fact that he is a Harvard man from his dinner companion of the fair sex. I'm sure every undergraduate at Princeton will agree with me that modesty is not his only reason for doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

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