Word: lunching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until the trump of Gabriel stills their clatter, Harvard must live with them. It must resign itself to being awakened on Sunday mornings at an hour too late to go to church and too early for civilized men to go to lunch. Worse, it must face the use of the bells as advertisements for amateur theatricals...
...telephone in the office of Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater jingled one morning last week with the kind of invitation that many a Republican on Capitol Hill will await breathlessly during the next year. Could the Senator have lunch that day with top members of the White House staff to discuss ways of helping him in his bid for re-election in 1958? Barry Goldwater, personal friend of the President and chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1955, drew in his breath and gave his polite answer: No, he did not think it would be right...
...Parkman had disappeared a week before. A man known for his punctuality as well as for his businesslike ways, he had been missed when he did not come home for lunch on the afternoon of November 23. His son-in-law, Robert Gould Shaw, a leading merchant, offered a $3000 reward for his safe return, and by Saturday afternoon had placed advertisements in all the papers and had circulated 28,000 handbills...
...preoccupied with the approaching end of World War II. Recalls Producer Harry Mynatt: "They had a hell of a time getting an audience-had to pass out dollar bills to get people into the theater. " Now the ladies fight to get into the Hollywood studio, bolt a buffet lunch, and scribble their wishes on a card. M.C. Bailey and Producer Mynatt select the 21 likeliest wishes, and backstage interviews just before air time pick the day's five contestants to be judged by the studio audience. "The woman who gives her wish from the bottom of her heart," muses...
...Harrison, N.Y., in which executives can dictate to 24 recording machines in a central transcription room, where expert typists quickly do the work. Yet mechanization is not the final answer. The girls find the work boring and faceless. And a machine can't go out on its lunch hour and buy a birthday present for the boss's wife...