Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner hour at The Balsams, Dixville Notch, N. H. Ravenous tourists and contented residents were scooping vegetables out of their "bird's bath-tubs," calling for more butter and chattering happily all through the airy dining-hall. Back and forth between her table and the kitchen, plied Helen Albro Park of Brooklyn, whose summer as a waitress was drawing to a close. Soon she would be returning to Boston University to take up her junior-year courses. How good it would be to handle books again after stacks of trays and dishes...
Harry Mulford Jewett, president Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co.: "I made a speech to 1,500 of my Jewett and Paige dealers at an elaborate dinner in the grand ballroom of the Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit. Said I: 'The new Paige is a powerful brute. You can drive it right through hell and you can't make it heat...
...only necessary for him to use the words "sorry" and "impracticable," finish off with a sonorous and obviously academical paragraph of good wishes, and sign his name. Last week, however, Elihu Root, having said the ordinary thing to one Merwin Hart of Utica who had asked him to a dinner in honor of Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., went on and on in a way that would have given any social secretary the willies. Midway in the long second paragraph Mr. Root's meaning became clear-he, Republican, was writing an endorsement of Mr. Wadsworth, Republican, by quoting...
Parisian editors were driven rumor-frantic by Mr. Mellon's secretive arrival. So certain were they that he would go to the Hotel Crillon and at once order "a New England boiled dinner" that two of the lesser journals reported he had done so. What did this unnatural-in-an-American conduct portend? Obviously a secret conference was to be held upon the Ile St. Louis. Cherchez le conference...
...managed to put so much suspense and excitement into his three acts that you can readily forgive an occasional absudity here and there, as well as the undeniable weakness of the final unraveling of his mystery. The plot follows the formula carefully. A murder is committed at a dinner party, and one by one every member of the cast comes under suspicion. And then at the close the one you are supposed never to have suspected seriously is revealed as guilty. It is all delightfully thrilling fun, and Paul Harvey, as the detective in charge of the case, gives...