Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner and reception for all collectors of the Student Friendship Drive and a limited number of Union members has been announced by the Student Friendship Committee. The dinner will take place at the Union, next Tuesday evening, February 23, at 6 o'clock. The guests of honor will be Mr. Ivison MacAdam, Jan Bolinski Jundzill, Max Habicht, and Franz Deak...
tured Mrs. Coolidge gave a dinner and musicale in honor of Speaker and Mrs. Longworth. The last time Mr. and Mrs. Longworth were guests of honor at the White House was on Feb. 17, 1906, when they were married. The other guests at the dinner included Senator and Mrs. Joseph T. Robinson, Senator and Mrs. Wadsworth, the Republican and Democratic leaders in the House (Messrs. Tilson and Garrett) and their wives, Mr. Alexander P. Moore (onetime Ambassador to Spain), James A. Drain (onetime Commander of the American Legion) and Mrs. Drain, two former ex-Secretaries to the President (C. Bascom...
Arrived at London, the Prince did indeed partake of dinner?"a dinner of sorts." For some months he has been under the care of Dr. John Weir, noted Scotch homeopathist, who is said to have "mercilessly cut down his usual diet," caused him to abandon "the two extremes of dining, soup and cigars," and restricted him to "four denicotinized cigarets per day" and no wine or spirits until dinner time ?all this because Edward has allegedly found himself "growing nervous...
Finally, as dinner time approached, the expensive part of the entertainment was revealed. The Lord Chamberlain threw open the doors of the Frederick the Great Salon. Wilhelm strode proudly in; deigned to express by a gesture that the room had just been "newly furnished with beautiful bronzes, together with brocaded hangings" and many another embellishment imported from Germany...
...never been adequately defined. Some understand it as the graphic record of a current event which is 1) unusual or 2) important. If a corporation president resigns his directorships to accept a job as bus boy, if a senator refuses to make a speech at a public dinner, if a revenue agent stops the sale of liquor ? that is news. Such news may be presented in as entertaining a fashion as possible. But there is another kind of news ? a narrative of events which have often occurred but must be recorded as a matter of form, with dignity...