Word: luncheon
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Adam B. Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and director of the Russian Research Center, and Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, attended the luncheon meeting...
...Conservative Club snowed remarkably poor judgement in holding a private luncheon with the South Africa Consul General on Thursday, May 2. Given the sensitivity of this issue, the Conservative Club's action appears blatantly provocative and could be easily interpreted as tacit approval of apartheid. This is not to say that the views of the South African government should not be heard, only that it would be far more appropriate if this were done in a public forum...
Nancy Reagan, meanwhile, will leave her traveling companion for a side trip to Italy to pursue her antidrug crusade. On Friday she will attend a luncheon in her honor at the Quirinale palace and then pay a call on a residential drug-treatment center outside Rome. The next day she will have a private audience with the Pope to discuss drug abuse, followed by a tour of the * Pauline and Sistine chapels. She is scheduled to return to Bonn in time for the summit's windup dinner on Saturday night...
...disgusted and angered by the events that took place at Howell House today. We are disgusted that the Conservative Club chose to honor a representative of the universally abhorred South African government at a luncheon, and we are angered that contrary to earlier promises made by the Conservative Club president, the post-luncheon discussion was not open to people who wished to attend (the protesters stated that they did not intend to disrupt the speaker...
West moves these characters gracefully through a cross section of English life in the early 1900s. A few days after the death of Edward VII, the Aubreys endure a strained luncheon at the magnificent London house of Mr. Morpurgo. The fault is not his but his haughty wife's, who, Rose notes acidly, "made war on ease by every word she said." The young Aubreys come away convinced that Mr. Morpurgo will seek a divorce. Their mother is shocked at the notion: "Divorce! You are too young to utter the word, and there is no reason why you should...