Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the U. S. they came together, 67 groups, big and little, of Boston Tech men in their own home cities; and sat down to their dinners, heard the radios being tuned in, and pushed back their chairs, lit their cigars, waited for the big speech of the evening. The main dinner of the evening was being held in Manhattan, but it was an "All-Technology Phantom Radio Dinner" such as only technical men could imagine, devise and carry out. An interlocking chain of broadcasting stations brought them all together, from Massachusetts to California. The main speaker of the evening...
Last week Rupert Hughes, novelist, was invited to speak at a dinner given in Washington, D. C., by the Sons of the American Revolution to honor the 197th anniversary of the birth of Edmund Burke. It was a solemn occasion. Starched faces and haughty shirtfronts hedged the board. Over the coffee cups, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia recited fine phrases in praise of Burke. Rupert Hughes got up. He passed quickly from the career of Burke to that of George Washington...
...first gun of the 1926 baseball season will be fired on Tuesday night, February 9, when the annual meeting, with decided innovations will be held at 8 o'clock at the Varsity Club, preceded by a dinner for former winners of the Crimson baseball H and last year's lettermen, it was announced last night by Manager Davidson Sommers '26. All aspirants for the diamond squad this year including Freshmen are invited to the meeting and invitations signed by Captain C. L. Todd '26, Coach Fred Mitchell and Manager Sommers have been sent to the ball tossers of previous University...
...Crimson veterans of last year who will be present at both the dinner to be given by the H. A. A. and the meeting that follows are: Captain Todd, hard hitting outfielder who was awarded, last year, the trophy presented by Barrett Wendell Jr. '01 for the best offensive play, with a batting average of .358, M. F. Amsden '26, outfielder, W. P. Ellison '27, outfielder, H. L. de Rham '27, catcher, R. W. Puffer '26, pitcher, J. E. Tobin, '27, first baseman, William Uilban '27, outfielder, and Isadore Zarakov '27, infielder...
...proprietor of the Taft Hotel, New Haven, wrote to me that this was a decennial year for my class of '56, and he would be glad to reserve rooms for the members of the class, and a banquet hall for our dinner. I answered that there were only two of us living and only one who might come...