Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confessions of a very earnest soul which has nothing to confess: "Upon rising in the morning it is my custom to go at once to my brother and help him with his fairly bulky correspondence. . . . We partake of ... breakfast and frequently dine together at about 2 p. m. After dinner I play some athletic game. ... I deplore the fact that so many of my girlhood friends have moved to other countries upon their marriage, leaving me few intimates...
...dilution to the extent of a new volume self-labelled "a love story-with just enough mystery." Mystery connoisseurs will be disappointed. Love-storyites will find in Holly a spineless heroine, in Warrington a blundering hero in spite of his burly good looks, and in Furness Brooks (he paid dinner calls) an unbelievable relic of the days before jazz...
...memory of Thomas Jefferson, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. This year the keynote speech of Claude Gernade Bowers, historian and editorial writer for the New York Evening World, was awaited with more than usual interest. Keynoter Bowers had won great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation in the bosoms of embattled Democrats. He was expected to eschew political pap, offer a program of progress...
...such hotel-on the famed Champs Elyses-serves a "New England Corned Beef & Cabbage Dinner" from splendrous, steam-heated trundle-trays...
...apathy and even boredom that the Princeton undergraduate finds in his own problem, conceived alumni style, is completely natural. Nowhere does one find the affairs of the University discussed with that sure freedom that is found at the dinner of the alumnus who is ten years out from Sever Quadrangle. Improvement, planful aspiration, avowed democratic principle--all these have a way ofturning will-o'-the wisp when the builders of the report, who are either too safely ensconced in the best clubs to care about action, or are alumni like the Princeton investigator, decide quite humanly...