Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called me a bore! How am I going to make my living as an after dinner speaker if I am slandered by being called a bore? I have started suit in London against Mr. H. G. Wells for $50,000 on a charge of slander. I will not submit to being called a bore...
Edison. In Manhattan, the Edison Pioneers celebrated with a dinner the 79th birth anniversary of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Mr. Edison basked in the sun at Fort Myers, Fla., but sent them a telegram: "Many thanks. Feeling fine. Weather beautiful. Coconuts are dropping all over the place. Wish you were here." To newspapermen of whom he entertained two large parties during the day, he said: "I couldn't retire. Just like trying to stop smoking cigarets. . . . Inventions are away ahead of the people...
...Ivison MacAdam is a former president of the English National Students' Union and is now First Vice President of the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants. Mr. MacAdam will make a short address after dinner in which he will touch on the value of student union and federation...
...President of the C. I. E. and a special student in the Law School will give a short address. M. Max Habicht, who has been prominently connected with the Confederation and where lecture at the Union before Christmas treated wide attention from the undergraduates will be present at the dinner and will also speak briefly...
...primary reasons for the dinner, aside from the opportunity to meet prominent figures in international student activities, is to bring together all the collectors of the Student Friendship Fund here in the University. Because of the large number of collectors it has been difficult this year, as in the past, for the leaders of the Drive to keep in touch with all the undergraduate subordinates whose work makes possible the collection of the fund. The meeting at dinner. Tuesday evening, will give the collectors of this year's drive an opportunity to get a fuller understanding of the work...