Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swimming pools are heated. Besides, how do you see your friends during the summer unless you go to Lake Tahoe? The lake is great for sailing, and the cocktail-party circuit is intense. After the healthy activities of the day, the energetic Lake Tahoeist can take off after dinner for the gambling casinos across the state line in Nevada, where any visitor can get a quick piece of the action. Most successful caterer to these mixed interests is River Ranch, a Currier & Ives styled encampment that opened only one year ago on the brink of the Truckee River just south...
...chili con carne and cherries flambé, It's dinner at eight and it's patching the chimney, And getting verse published like Phyllis McGinley...
...Duke's invitation read) led his 15-piece band. Catherine Drinker Bowen read a passage from Yankee from Olympus, her memorable biography of Mr. Justice Holmes. It had to do with the thrills felt by Holmes's wife Fanny upon her arrival in Washington and her first dinner at the White House, where she was enthusiastically greeted by President Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Bowen had had some qualms about picking that particular passage: it might, she thought, be rather sentimental, while other festival readers would likely select passages of much more "social significance." But having thought it all over...
Whereupon the President returned to his office, leaving the artists to have dinner and partake of champagne until...
...Share the Thrills." Lyndon praised the pair publicly as "the Christopher Columbuses of the 20th century," then whispered to them privately: "You are going to spend the night and have dinner with us. Down in my country that's the way we show our affection...