Word: prandial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock in the afternoon is late enough so that most of the audience should not be prevented by academic activities from prompt arrival. Other occupations may actually detain a few but the large majority at these recitals owe a discourteous and noisy tardiness to nothing more serious than pre-prandial intertia...
...Depew is distinguished. Lawyer, politician, public and post- prandial orator, he has seen many years full of service and honor. And the class of '89 is a distinguished class in its own right, patriarch or none. Of its 120 mem bers, there were at one-and-the sametime 17 occupying seats on benches of the judiciary. It has contributed 27 district attorneys and corporation counsels to our legal aristocracy. Lately it has styled itself "famous class"* without fear of contradiction...
Whenever a great social function takes place, such as a brilliant feast, or some other prandial entertainment, the French are involuntarily reminded of the State banquet given by President Faure to the Tsar of All the Russias in 1896-a costly repast reminiscent of the Roi Soleil at the height of his glory...
...passing of Memorial, attributes it to an increasing habit of "eating about" at quick-lunch counters, cafeterias and the like. This is one of those explanations that need explaining. If it is true that civilized man cannot live without dining, it is doubly true that the hours of prandial relaxation have a peculiar value in undergraduate life. Dr. Lowell speaks of Memorial as a place where "men could meet together constantly, have club tables and get the advantage that comes in college life from association with a group of comrades around a common table." But if it had really afforded...
...well-known London restaurant, the eight lady Members oif Parliament will sit down to a prandial celebration. Those who accepted the invitation: The Duchess of Atholl (Conservative), Lady Astor (Conservative), Mrs. Wintringham (Liberal), Mrs. Hilton Philipson (Conservative), Miss Margaret Bondfield (Labor). Those to be heard from were: Lady Terrington (Liberal), Mrs. D. Jewson and Miss Susan Lawson (Laborites...