Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here entered: "The March wind staggered about the Concord house, striking at doors, shaking shutters. By its sound you knew that it smelt of melting earth and sticky buds. Inside was a dingy, not unpleasant taint of coke burning in the Franklin grate, and a lingering fragrance of dinner . . . ticking clocks, the reptilian hiss of fire, and without, the scampering wind...
Next evening there was a state dinner at the White House. At the President's right sat the Crown Princess; Mrs. Coolidge was squired by Gustaf Adolf. Others present around the board of crystal and gold were the Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, the entire Cabinet with their ladies, the Swedish Minister and Mrs. Bostrom, Senators Borah and Swanson (Senior Republican and Senior Democrat of the Foreign Relations Committee) and their wives, Congressman and Mrs. Chindblom of Chicago...
...Combined Dinner Tonight...
...mule skinner of the "Covered Wagon," and later the king of the underworld in the "Hunchback of Notre Dame," will let his presence in the cast alone for a be the multitude of sins. If you have never seem him shaved and in the conventional after 6 o'clock dinner jacket it would be almost worth the chance to look. Then there is a hero who first gained fame because of a powerful jaw which looks well under a sombrero. He is the young lawyer striving to prevent injustice, and is homely enough to satisfy the male element...
...There is another tale of a White House dinner. Mrs. Coolidge was in a lively mood; she had attended a concert-the Philadelphia Orchestra, Paderewski, or Jeritza-and was quite enthusiastic ... until the President, laying down a fork and drawing a napkin across his lips, interjected: "'I can't understand why you keep running around to these musicales when there are five pianos right here in the White House...