Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first years after the war, at Covent Garden, London, a pair of "plus-fours" was seen. Following this outrage the tuxedo, dinner garment of touts dining in company and gentlemen dining alone, appeared frequently in the boxes, where none without full evening dress dared enter in the days when good King Edward reigned. Last week the management of Covent Garden made evening dress once more obligatory...
...Rhodes trustees have also, lately, been in a position to undertake the erection of a Rhodes House at Oxford, to form an annex to the Bodleian Library and a centre for students of politics in the English-speaking world and for African students. Last week at the annual Rhodes dinner Trustee Sir Otto Beit announced still another Rhodes innovation-a memorial lectureship of ?500 per annum to bring to Oxford for a term each year and for not less than two lectures a foreign man or woman "of pre-eminent distinction" in public life or business, in science, scholarship...
...party will leave from the dock at the foot of State Street on board the yacht of R. T. Paine. Arrival at Pride's Crossing is fixed for 7.15 o'clock and at 8.45 o'clock a dinner will be given for the guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Prince in Wenham. This program will continue during the remainder of the visit of the royal party in this country...
After a short workout this afternoon, the members of the University squad will be the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Todd, the parents of the University captain at their home in South Lincoln...
Charles A. McLain left Butte, Mont., several weeks ago. He left after dinner with Mayor William H. Horgan and Judge Joseph R. Jackson of the Supreme Court of the state of Montana, many city officials and other prominent citizens. For many months, perhaps for years, he will not see the tin sardine and preserved fruit cans collecting their films of copper in the gullies around his home town. He will be in Manhattan studying "for a début in the New York music world...