Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost as remote from politics as the Royal Family was Punch, last week, and its pontifical editor, Sir Owen Seaman, agile rhymster, able after-dinner speaker, onetime professor of literature...
...royalty it was a real family party. Down to Windsor went royal Dukes and Duchesses, Princes and Princesses. Only the Duke of Gloucester, en route from Japan to Canada, failed to appear at the dinner table. Earliest bringers of birthday presents were the Queen's three grandchildren, chubby blonde "P'incess Lilybet and her cousins, Hubert and Gerald Lascelles, Princess Mary's two boys...
...Last week something occurred to bring forth the question: Will Editor Lorimer soon be "one up" on Editor Long? That something was this: To the White House went Editor Lorimer, there to dine with President Hoover, then to spend the night in a White House guest chamber. Over the dinner table, and later, up in the second story White House den, President and Editor talked. What they talked about, no one knows. From the Executive Offices came no statement. To newsgatherers Editor Lorimer said nothing, except that his was a "social, personal visit." But the newsgatherers, other editors, journalists were...
...fortnight, all alert newspaper editors were quick to weigh them in Wet-and-Dry scales. Great were the stirrings among U. S. Drys, Consolidated, and U. S. Wets, Limited, to assemble debatable material to put before the commission. The President's legalistic examiners were lightly spoken of at Washington dinner tables as "highbrow highball homilecticians...
...chief speakers for the occasion will be President M. E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College, Professor A. N. Whitehead of the Department of Philosophy, and President Lowell. Bishop W. J. Lawrence will give the introduction and the benediction at the close of the ceremony. The Alumni dinner June 1 will bring the semi-centennial celebration to a close, upon which occasion speeches will be given by members of Radcliffe's first graduating class, that...