Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans punned: "Free soil, free speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican shout of 1896: "McKinley and the full dinner pail!" And the 1916 Wilson motto: "He kept us out of war!" One of the most successful slogans of all time was Warren G. Harding's "Back to normalcy," embarrassingly illiterate but far more euphonious than "Back to normality" would have been...
...28th annual International Live Stock Exposition, the 9th annual International Hay & Grain Show and the 3rd annual Illinois Master Farmers Dinner, all in Chicago last week, brought heyday to U. S. and Canadian farmers. Exciting were the contests for the best cattle, horses, sheep, swine and grains shown. Herman Trelle, of Wembley, Peace River, Alberta, Canada, brought samples of oats which yielded him 123 bushels to the acre. The judges gave him the prize, and thus for the sixth time in eight years a Canadian won the oats championship. C. Edson Smith of Corvallis, Mont., was champion wheat raiser...
...Master Farmers' Dinner was part of a movement as yet little lauded in the U. S. The farmers' magazines have supported these dinners and helped to choose farmers respected in their communities as good citizens as well as good farmers. Such men are "master farmers." At their annual dinners they receive gold medals of recognition. At Chicago last week 13 Illinois men received medals. There had been only 35 awarded in the whole state before...
...individuals must have character training. He spoke at the sixth annual banquet of the Twenty-six Broadway Club, composed of employes and executives of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Chairman George H. Jones and President Walter Clark Teagle of the corporation spoke; Mrs. Rockefeller sat at the dinner table...
...hotel room. The bell is unanswered. Septimius descends to the lobby. There he finds the other guests of the hotel in a state of considerable confusion. The entire kitchen staff has gone on strike. Count Veruda (of unknown antecedents) has asked everyone to join him at dinner on his yacht which is lying in the harbor. Some of the ladies have demurred through lack of confidence in the count. One of these ladies, Miss Harriet Perkins, confers with Septimius. Septimius suddenly discovers that he would much like to dine with Miss Perkins. He suggests that there is nothing wrong about...