Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might say of the Yale man that he is wholesome. He smells of soap and water. When he wears a dinner jacket he gives the impression that he would be more comfortable in something less formal. He finds no particular need to defend himself so long as he beats Harvard and Princeton each year in football. He is content with the world as he finds it and is, in fact, quite normal...
...spring initiation of the society will be held on Tuesday, May 1, at 5 o'clock, in the Harvard Union, and will be followed by a dinner...
Before quitting London the Secretary of State for India delivered a wholly characteristic after dinner address to the famed Authors' Club on the subject: "Women's Position in Literature." Said scathing Lord Birkenhead: ". . . Women have no position in literature...
...course of Icarus, they went through the air to Athens, the place he never reached. The little hills and the brilliant city grew into the darkness under them. They landed at six in the evening and had a bitter wine with their dinner. They made a journey which many a splendid army has made in two months; by the middle of the spring afternoon they were in Marseilles...
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, gave her estate at Grossmont, Calif., valued at $230,000, to the disabled American Veterans of the World War. They will use it as a rest home. Said she at a dinner of disabled veterans in Minneapolis: "I make this gift . . . because you called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...