Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even in the English saddle with its low pommel and cantle. In the McClellan saddle of the U. S. Army or the cowboy saddle of the ranches, she will have even a more secure seat, as can testify famed Rodeo Rider "Texas" Guinan, now boisterous hostess of a Manhattan supper club.† She never found anything exotic or treacherous in a man's saddle, and certainly would never weary her pony with the heavier sidesaddle...
Grays Hall--1 to 6, 8, The Man Actors; 7. The Black Hole; 10 to 12, 14. The Twelve Apostles; 13, 15 to 18, The Last Supper; 20 to 26, The Grand Army...
...French Mandate in Syria adjoins the British Mandate in Palestine, M. de Jouvenel an nounced that he wished to come to an amicable understanding concerning any possible sources of friction between the two mandates. Said he, after a conference, a dinner, another conference, and a few hours at a supper club with Mr. Chamberlain...
...municipal zoo, and all day he reclined in his cell, staring down with absorbed eyes at his scaled and glittering body. The keeper, observing this, reflected: "How beautiful he is to himself, this hideous creature." One day, a few minutes late with the boa constrictor's supper, the keeper hurried into his cage to find him stretched on the floor, in the shape of a great stiff zero with one end of him inside the other. He had tried to eat his tail; his teeth had become caught on his scales; he had choked, writhed, and so-devoured...
...order that there shall be no congestion around supper time, supper cards with an eating time printed on them have been issued with the tickets. Supper will be served from 11.10 o'clock to 12.50 o'clock...