Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote!" A few minutes later the correspondent would come back, often with an unfavorable report. Swope was active among the delegates until the small hours of the morning, scolding, threatening, cajoling ? and nearly always successful. Next day the Democratic National Committee heard the bids and then adjourned for lunch. San Francisco had bid $200,000 to Manhattan's $150,000. The other contesting cities were Chicago and St. Louis. After lunch the Committee reassembled. Each of the cities was allowed 25 minutes to present its case. Manhattan was last in order. Acting Mayor Hulbert said: "We have grown...
...woman crouching on the corner, but the rush of his daily activities blinds him to the starving students of distant Europe who subsist solely on bowls of soup and a tremendous inspiration to learn. Could those poor students march through Harvard Square as classes let out for the lunch hour, could they make their request, no matter how silent, in person, the silver would flow in rivers. It is all a question of realization...
...weeks, the request has been made. Giving is a question of appeal and convenience. If the appeal outweighs the inconvenience the gift is certain. And with a very slight use of the imagination, the European student is at the door. The undergraduate meets him as he goes to lunch. Will he not, as a fellow student and a gentleman, extend an invitation? Of a certainty--and today...
...last act, while the Empress is resting after a hearty lunch, the young lady applies the maxims of the golden book well enough to win back her admirer. The empress, at first piqued by the guardsman's disloyalty, finally relents and pairs off the couples anew with a truly autocratic disregard for marriage laws...
...American dye industry, to judge from the banquet speeches of some of its leaders, must watch out for perilous competition from Germany. Francis P. Garvan, President of the Chemical Foundation, declared at a recent lunch of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers' Association that prominent German capitalists and manufacturers are vainly seeking an alliance with American firms only to destroy them, and will shortly attempt to set up a German-owned dye industry within...