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Word: dinners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cheering which echoed through the dining room of the Harvard Club of Boston, where the announcement was made last night at a dinner to the University eleven, sounded acclaim for five minutes after the statement was made by W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Horween Will Return to Guide 1929 Gridiron Destinies | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...rumors of change in the Harvard coaching staff which have been current since the close of the football season were laid low in the first speech of the evening. T. W. Slocum '90, president of the Harvard Club of New York city, toastmaster at the dinner, called on Mr. Bingham as the first speaker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Horween Will Return to Guide 1929 Gridiron Destinies | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...dailies their manners. And I am wondering if drama critics are to become corrupted by the plays they are paid to see. This is a word that might be spoken on the stage in so frank and veristic a production as The Front Page, but uttered at a decent dinner table it would impel a Victorian butler to practice on the loose-lipped guest what is technically known as the bum's rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...best symphonic work, included prize offers of $10,000 and $5,000 for best and second-best short compositions suitable for a jazz orchestra. The $25,000 symphonic contest stays open until next May. Winners of the jazz contest were named last week in Manhattan at a dinner at which John Philip Sousa was toastmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: $10,000 Reward | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Farewells. Old and new members of the World staff gave Editor Swope a farewell dinner at the Hardware Club on Broadway. Strong men were on the point of bursting into tears when Alexander Woollcott, famed dramatic critic once with the World, relieved the situation with some good stories. A volume of some 160 letters from staff members was presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Renaud's World | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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