Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MRS. PANDIT...
President and Mrs. James B. Conant announced yesterday that the annual Faculty Reception will not be held this fall. The State Fire inspector has recently ruled that the Fogg Art Museum is unsafe to accommodate more than 675 people at one time...
...Mrs. Conant will be at home to all members of the teaching and administrative staffs and their wives from 4 to 6 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month...
Bred to salons in which ladies & gentlemen together debated literary and topical matters, Mrs. Trollope was outraged by a nation in which the men were happiest alone with "a gin cocktail," their feet up on the backs of chairs, talking business, business, business, and spitting, spitting, spitting, while the women sat in a room apart and tittled and tattled by the hour. She made notes of their crude, fantastic speech, little suspecting that age and custom would lend much of it such a patina that such a horrendous phrase as "go the whole hog" would be used...
Freedom's Onions. Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance. "The theory of equality may be very daintily discussed by English gentlemen in a London dining room, when the servant, having placed a fresh bottle of cool wine on the table, respectfully shuts the door, and leaves them to their walnuts and their wisdom; but it will be found less palatable when it presents itself in the shape of a hard, greasy...