Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval Air Service, American Army attaches, Governor Tsugeta of Ibarki Province and a delegation of 20 prominent citizens from the nearby town of Tsuchiura, all draped in the Stars and Stripes and dressed in their best kimonas. The aviators were then escorted to a hangar in which were tables spread with chestnuts and dried fish. These are old warrior tokens?the chestnuts signifying triumph, the dried fish, good luck. At Tokyo the U. S. aviators were lionized by the U. S. colony, official and aeronautical Japan, the populace. They were presented with cigarette cases by the American Society of Tokyo...
...entire Senior Class will receive letters today explaining the plans which have been made for the annual spread-which Phillips Brooks House will give on Class Day, June 17. Although only members of the Class of 1924 will be reached by the mailing list, the invitation which Phillips Brooks House is extending includes all members of the University and their guests...
...Committee appointed by the Board of Overseers to visit the University Library held its annual meeting and dinner last evening in the Widener Memorial rooms. The Chairman, Mr. Francis R. Appleton '75, of New York, was the host to the Committee and a few other guests. The table was spread the length of the inner library room. The blazing fire in the large marble fire-place, carved English oak walls, cases brilliant with gilded morocco bindings, high-backed, crimson-upholstered chairs borrowed from the Farnsworth House, silver, linen and candle-light, combined to give a setting more familiar in stories...
...Liberty spread her wings and flew, just as Messrs. Patterson and McCormick had planned. How high? If one can believe an advertisement published in the Chicago Tribune the day following Liberty's appearance on the newsstands, there had been sold in one day the entire first issue-725,000 copies. (According to another account in the Tribune the number was 735,000-at any rate, a great number...
...spectacle of the patrician turned for the moment into the beggar will be democratically moving, and should loosen many wallets. When the Seniors have removed themselves from the steps of Widener and have spread their traditional sheet to receive what manna may fall, all Freshmen, one hopes, will remember the honor of their class and rise to the spirit of the day with many clinking shekels. "And cursed be he who first cries 'Hold, enough...