Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apartment of Secretary Mellon, the President and Mrs. Coolidge and other favored ones had dinner...
...evening last week, she was pleasantly conscious that a room adjoining her bedchamber sheltered an infant princess. Her Majesty and the rest of the royal family had partaken of an unusually frugal meal. No soup was served, and everything was cooked with as little grease as possible. Such a dinner is Her Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served for the benefit of the Duke and Duchess of York. On the morrow they were to embark aboard H. M. S. Renown...
...vague anxiety. Raoul La Chapelle was popular, the manager of a department. Now for over a week he had not been to the office, nor had he telephoned or written to say where he was. Ever since the night of a feêe when, expected to dinner, he had failed to appear, Raoul La Chapelle had been lost as completely as if he were dead. At last the Minister of Agriculture himself sent three men to Raoul's rooms. And there, sure enough, was Raoul...
Every year for 21 years the Harvard Club of New York has had a "Copey" evening, a dinner to which a fortunate company, the Copeland Associates (by invitation only), sit down, followed by a reading. Here Theodore Roosevelt used to come. Here now come J. P. Morgan and his partner, Thomas W. Lamont. Here Publisher George Palmer Putnam and perhaps Nov- elists Owen Wister and Arthur Train, Poets Conrad Aiken, Hermann Hagedorn, Witter Bynner-these and many a plain John Smith and Tom Jones whose only claims to fame, perhaps, were their selection of one of "Copey's" courses...
...made the trip, leaving in busses yesterday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock from Paine Music Hall. Before the concert the members were entertained at dinner by Harvard supporters under whose patronage the concert was given. It is one of a series of concerts being given in adjacent towns by the Pierian Orchestra...