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...festivities will begin with a punch at 6 p.m. on the steps of Cabot Hall for seniors and their dates. A roast beef buffet dinner will follow. Musical entertainment, in the form of the Dunster Dunces, will provide the suitable musical atmosphere for the collation...
...that was almost bearable," he continued. "But when they told me they were going to vast me for their annual dinner, that was the last straw. 'Roast Ibis.' Ugh," he shuddered. "Imagine it--eaten like an ordinary bird. For soup, they were planning to have 'Ibis bisque...
Editor Edgar Johnson has written an excellent introduction to the book and helped the continuity with informative notes. He challenges Bernard Shaw's opinion that Dickens wrote nothing but "roast beef and Yorkshire pudding letters," and these letters bear...
...Fort Worth, his audience was one of the most enthusiastic he has ever addressed. At San Antonio, Spanish-Americans greeted him with signs reading "Viva 'Adlai" and "Ole Adlai." And in Uvalde, he got a public blessing and breakfast (bacon & eggs, fried ham and red-eye gravy, roast pheasant, hot biscuits and honey) from 83-year-old ex-Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner...
...Christian mission, she decides, is to destroy as many of these pagan relics as possible. The natives find her constant digging odd, but since she tosses everything into Rahabaat's volcano, they find her piety admirable. When, in a moment of hunger, she eats a portion of roast piglet left on the altar of Rahabaat and the god fails to strike her dead, the natives are sufficiently awed to make her the guest of honor at a fecundity festival. "You're a lost woman," comments Sam Barnfield sadly. "And you," she taunts, "are a dirty-minded...