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...Dumps. Not everyone, however, was so disapproving of the avalanche of expensive gaiety as Mrs. Grundy and Laborite George Thomson. Hotel managers purred happily as they scanned supper-room bookings, filled up solidly to Christmas. A wholesale caviar merchant reported "our best year ever." Dance pianists, even not very good ones, were demanding and getting as much as ?30 for an evening's work. In the midst of the merriment, many a Londoner was cast into the dumps at news that what might well have been the biggest and best party of all was canceled. It was to have...
That evening there will be a buffet supper in the Lowell Courtyard, followed by the Band and Glee Club Concert at the Tercentenary Theatre in the Yard. An informal dance until 2 a.m. in the Lowell Courtyard will close the day's events...
...find a tale which talks through its own logic instead of requiring attempts to explain outside the narrative, he may well become a really successful story-teller. At present, however, his story compels you to read until, arriving at the end, you find that there is nothing there but supper...
...dinner." It wasn't. There wasn't a black tie there, and the "red tartan dinner jacket" that Stevenson wore is not a dinner jacket but a dilapidated spare coat. You say "with only his really good friends in politics invited." There were two people for supper at his house that night: Stevenson and a friend from out of town, George Ball. Stevenson's law partner Bill Wirtz and his wife arrived about 10 o'clock; later in the evening Stevenson's sister, Mrs. Ives, and a family friend arrived. These people are hardly described...
...morning, during a smoke break, he had found some of the recruits stretched out on the grass, even sleeping, in totally un-bootlike posture. Although it was Sunday, he had ordered a "field day" -a complete cleanup of the barracks with swab, scrub brush, creosote and yellow soap. At supper that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown of the already bleach...