Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tart-tongued Timothy Michael Healy, now retiring as Governor General of the Irish Free State (TIME Dec. 26), sat with suspicious placidness, last week, through a long farewell dinner in his honor at Dublin...
Last week good Prince Gaston temporized, promised to investigate, tickled the coarse palates of the humble hillmen with a dinner of choice viands and choicer champagnes...
...case for superlatives, but not for the kind of superlatives that were properly scattered at The Gold Rush. There is nothing in The Circus to match the moment in which Actor Chaplin, with all the fine frenzy of a gourmet dissecting a brace of broiled quail, ate a Christmas dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused his imaginary guests with a miniature ballet dance, furnished by two forks, each shod with a roll. But it would be very difficult not to laugh at Charles Chaplin when he finds that the wire...
...scattering of capable supporters and a plot about a man who had to pretend he was husband and father to inherit wealthy grandfather's gold. Nearly everyone agreed that Miss Lillie's surroundings are superfluous. Yet when she is in view contentment spreads ; especially when she upsets the dinner service and makes her exit wrapped nobly in the tablecloth...
...tentative dinner has been planned by the Harvard Club of Boston, to which all men who have received an H in baseball are invited...