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...fear, furthermore, that the new tray may also serve in intramural "flying saucer" experiments, and perhaps even in post-prandial roulette games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

...Raleigh Hotel there was a grand celebration. All but nine of the Senate's 75 Democrats were present. Outside the door was a little wooden ramp of the kind whose appearance at any Washington hotel indicates that the President himself may arrive at any moment. Over the prandial tablecloth fluttered two perturbed tumbling pigeons, symbols of Peace. The Democratic Party was about to celebrate the accession of a new leader in the Senate, to drown old woes in new harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hell & Close Harmony | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Class of '56 | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bolshevik Simplicity | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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