Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little woman nobly responds under the optimism of her learned mate and leads the way to the dinner table where the evening repast of water gruel is ready for distribution among the stricken troop...
...poor old gentleman who symbolizes the G. O. P. had to go up and hide away the full dinner pail. He worked it until he had it all worn out and when this campaign opened up he quietly went up into the attic and had a little piece of chamois cloth and was getting ready to polish it all up and see if he could not pass it around again...
...Scapini to Boston is Frederick H. Allen '80 of New York who has been appointed chairman of the committee for his reception by President Coolidge. The lecture will be held in the Faculty Room of the Living Room of the Union, and will be directly proceeded by a small dinner which is being given for the visitor by the members of the French department. The talk is open to all Union members...
...Coolidge Prosperity. Nominee Smith cited the average wage of textile workers, $17.30 per week, and contrasted it with an advertisement published in Boston by the G. O. P. The advertisement advertised that the G. O. P. had put "a chicken in every pot," had "filled the workingman's dinner pail and his gasoline tank besides and placed the whole nation in the silk-stocking class." Said Nominee Smith: "Now, just draw on your imagination for a moment and see if you can in your mind's eye picture a man at $17.30 a week going out to a chicken dinner...
Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza chose wisely for his first-night opera. L'Amore is short. It could begin late that Manhattan's society folk might entertain leisurely at dinner. It could have long intermissions that they might take account of their neighbors' stock. It was over early that they might have their parties afterward...