Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether Columbus journeyed to an unexpected discovery of the archipelago, hitherto undeveloped by Florida "realtors" with the express purpose of proving that gesture is essential to after dinner speaking--the egg trick--or merely because his instinct for reformation, change, decided his eventual research for some panacea for the less pleasing odors of Europe--will never be known--for it remains difficult to psycho-analyze the dead. At all events, he came, he saw--and conquered the emotions of future generations to the extent of rendering unto Harvard a holiday in the month of October...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge are planning a busy social season at the White House this winter. The chief events on their calendar are: Dec. 2, Cabinet dinner; Dec. 9, Diplomatic reception; Dec. 16, Diplomatic dinner; Jan. 1, Public New Year's reception; Jan. 13, Judicial reception; Jan. 26, Supreme Court dinner; Feb. 3, Congressional reception; Feb. 10, Speaker's dinner; Feb. 17, Army and Navy reception...
...birthday of M. Clemenceau was not "celebrated" last week. Few Frenchmen know his birthdate, for it has been his whim to conceal it from the compilers of reference books. Instead of giving or attending a stuffy birthday dinner, M. Clemenceau observed his birthday by ordering his chauffeur to drive hi mto the village of Les Sables d'Olonne. There he bargained vociferously with the vegetable and fisherwomen for the substance of a frugal meal. Returning to Bels Ebats, he dined alone...
Congress, a dinner was given at the Coploy Plaza by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for all the delegates. At this dinner, various members spoke, giving thanks for their recepton and high praise for the success of the Congress...
...conferees cabled greetings to the scientific congress at Düsseldorf (see p. 20) : "Through research and education the scourge of cancer will yet be controlled." Then they traveled to Manhattan for a farewell dinner of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, where Banker Thomas W. Lament presided...