Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that was frank language, the President heard more of it from a group of 17 top U.S. businessmen whom he had invited to the White House for a lunch that lasted until nearly 4 p.m.*The meeting was cordial, and it helped both Kennedy and the businessmen to understand each other's problems better. Most, but by no means all, of the businessmen favored an immediate tax cut. The businessmen told Kennedy that they liked his new depreciation schedule (see BUSINESS), but took the opportunity to express some complaints right to his face. They asked Kennedy...
...words from golf-playing Igor ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Cassini, in the Journal American, or good-natured Joseph X. Dever in the World-Telegram, or bland Nancy Randolph in the Daily News, or even the entertainingly abrasive "Suzy" (Aileen Mehle) in the Mirror. The fascinating intelligence that Mercedes de Footwork had lunch at the Purple Tulip is good for a line any time. No one may have heard of either Mercedes or the Tulip, but after both have been mentioned a dozen times and absorbed with faithful mindlessness by the people who read "the columns," Mercedes may get some invitations...
...footman is all but gone in Newport, R.I.-the golden day when it took some 30 servants to run a summer "cottage," when the Sunday lunch table was set for 250 as a matter of course, and creeping socialism was represented by the 16th Amendment, empowering the Government to levy an income tax. Another knell tolled for those high and far-off times last week as the auctioneer's hammer fell on the contents of The Elms, one of the last of the great houses that were still homes-until the death a year ago of Miss Julia Berwind...
...first breezes of the big windfall began to stir nine months ago, when Chairman Herbert Johnson of the famous wax company invited Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness to lunch in Racine. The company had earlier shown its taste in the arts by building a spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright building that is now a Wisconsin landmark. Now Johnson wanted to find out what the firm could do for U.S. painting. Nordness replied: Buy major paintings from top living U.S. artists and exhibit them as widely as possible...
...days have ever proved as richly, fortuitously frabjous as the beamish afternoon of July 4, 1862. It was a century ago this week, between lunch and brillig, that the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and a friend rowed three small sisters up the River Isis and came upon Wonderland...