Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after dinner address last week Dean Pound of the Law School traced the evolution of the United States common law judge from his English derivation to his present day status of an umpire on the bench. His remarks emphasized one of the most significant trends of American polity, the sole important deviation from the canons set up by our English model. This is the American attitude toward the judiciary which has stripped the common law judge of his former despotic powers and reduced him to a mere figurehead...
Leading newspapers commented on the Jackson Dinner with satisfaction...
Said the Washington Post: "The harmony climax at the Jackson day dinner was almost too good to be true, and too exquisite to last long...
...have confiscated U. S. property. The U. S. has sent no Marines to Russia. "I should hate to think that the U. S. looks at the size of a country to decide whether or not to occupy it." . . . So said Irving T. Bush, Manhattan capitalist, last week at a dinner for Pan-American cooperation...
...Please tell Mr. Copper," a grizzled old man sat at dinner aboard train, "that the meat was excellent, the salad marvelous, and the pastry better than ever." The waiter came back. "Mr. Copper's compliments, and he reminds you, sir, that the soup was good...