Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time he had seen an ocean, or a razor-shell clam or an undertow or a beach littered with bottles, fruit crates, oil dregs, clinkers. The Governor of South Dakota is a witty man, as all can testify who heard his speech at the Jackson Dinner in Washington last fortnight. Confronted with an ocean, he said: "It looked pretty...
...Even in Albany, where she has presided over the social life of the Executive Mansion for seven years, few women really know her. They see her at the inaugural balls and occasionally at a small dinner. Her face is familiar as it is framed against the back seat of an open Packard, license No. 2. The Dutch aristocracy of Albany noted the gradual improvement of her appearance as the sales-ladies of Altman's [Manhattan department store] have become more adept at finding becoming gowns for her, and on the rare occasions when she stands in the receiving line...
Boyhood he spent in efforts to escape farm drudgery, not by loafing but through such rational adventures as peddling dinner bells and lightning rods. Grade school and high school he was encouraged to attend, but he had to teach country school and write newspaper fillers until he saved enough to begin working his way through Oberlin College. Followed three years of study in a Cleveland law office, and then, 24, he was admitted...
Nightclub. Seventy boys and 70 girls of the Medill High School, Chicago, attended a dinner dance at the Club Bagdad, were caught in a raid by prohibition agents, denied they had been drinking. Agents searched for evidence in vain...
When came the turn of Cincinnati's Chamber of Commerce President James M. Hutton to express his plaudits at the Crabbs dinner last week (see above), he suddenly switched talk from railroad terminals to hospitals. The name of another hero then came up?that of Colonel William Cooper Procter...