Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meanwhile, "Jim," famed gobbler from the President's Plymouth (Vt.) farm, escaped the ax for the second time. Last year he was intended to grace the table of a U. S. Thanksgiving Day banquet in London. Queen Alexandra died (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), so the dinner was canceled. This November, the chef of the Savoy said that "Jim" was too tough, despatched him back to a peaceful old age on his Kent farm. ¶The second story and roof of the White House are in need of repairs which may take six months to complete. So next March, after...
...Coolidge Potatoes" are now selling for $3 a peck,* f. o. b. Ply mouth, Vt. Last week New York newspapers contained an advertisement of the Dimock Potato Corp. of Bellows Falls, Vt., which said: "A thrill for your dinner guests. . . . This unusual, long-to-be-remembered novelty-baked potatoes de luxe-grown on the farm of Calvin Coolidge's boyhood...
...matter of general knowledge that the meals at Memorial Hall were poor. And that one fact has given rise to the present eating situation. If the Harvard Union itself were a regular restaurant, it would have gone bankrupt long ago. The dinner it serves for 90 per cents, for instance, can be surpassed by half a dozen restaurants near the Yard. If the service were good or the bill of fare attractively varied, it might be much more popular than it is, despite the poorly cooked food, but they aren...
...Waldow Massachusetts Avenue and Holyoke--Oh! not so good later but excellent for dinner. One of those places where the elite always dine. Good supper music...
After the dinner the assembly will be addressed by some of the foremost scholars of America. Among them will be Bishop William Lawrence '71, President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; Professor Irving Babbitt '89; Professor C. R. Post '04; Professor R. DeC. Ward '89, Chairman of the Board of Freshman Advisers, and President Lowell...