Word: luncheon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religion plays a part . . . altogether unknown elsewhere." Church membership (except in the big cities) is taken for granted, community activities center around the churches. "The Girl Scouts meet in the basement of the church, the Parent-Teachers Association in the Parish House . . . One of the local ministers opens the luncheon meeting of Rotary or the annual drive of the Community Chest . . . There exists the closest and most intimate bond between the Catholic Church and some locals of the United Automobile Workers or the United Steel Workers, between Protestant churches and some locals of the Rubber Workers, or between Jewish congregations...
James P. Baxter III, president of Williams College, praised the aid given to education by business, but agreed with President Pusey that business should contribute more. Baxter shared the speakers' platform with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter at the annual luncheon of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research and the Harvard Law School Alumni in the Harkness Commons yesterday...
Frankfurter spoke before the annual luncheon of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research and the Law School Alumni Association, and Weeks addressed 91 members of the Army and Air Force ROTC to whom he later gave second-lieutenants' commissions...
...youth were kept apart at the beaches, as the parents went to Singing Beach while the "Intermediates and Juniors" invaded Magnolia Beach. Such a highly suspect move as that of breaking up the family could not last long, and the wound was repaired by noon, when a family luncheon was served in the huge big-top tents behind the clubhouse. Save for a few ants the chicken salad was fine, and for those who could master the wily lobster the meal was doubly successful...
After making his way to a literary luncheon in Chicago, seamy-side-of-life Novelist Nelson (The Man with the Golden Arm) Algren (see BOOKS) deplored authors whose prissy works ignore "the back rooms and gutters." Resolutely sticking to his conviction that Skid Row makes the choicest book fodder, Chicago Slum Runner Algren heartily stabbed at two contemporary upper-middle-class protagonists: "If Marjorie Morningstar and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit were being married on my front porch at high noon, I wouldn't go to the wedding...