Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pollard, of the ninth generation of Virginia Pollards, is a quiet, meditative man of 58. His eyes twinkle, his lips smile with scholastic humor. At Williamsburg he dwells in a middle-class wooden house in the faculty group, tends a flower garden in the rear, forgets to answer the supper bell. He served his State one term as Attorney-General...
Returned before St. Peter's, the Pope dismounted. Night had fallen. In the glow of spotlights he walked solemnly to a bronze altar set before a tapestry of the Last Supper. Canticles were intoned by 6,000 voices. To the kneeling thousands the elevation of the host was announced by a salvo of bugles. The Pope raised his arms heavenward, thrice blessed the throng. Then, remounting the podium, he was borne into the awesome, shadowed basilica. As he passed, the dark façade blazed with torches...
...nurse's 13-hr, record was typical of the heart's variations. When she listened to music her heart beat 98.6, its fastest. At supper it slowed to 82.5. Preparing to play cards sent the rate up; playing let it go down. Preparing for bed jumped it; turning the lights out lowered it. As she dropped into sleep the rate wobbled...
...receive little or no support on Manhattan's Broadway or Chicago's Randolph Street. Foreign features-Siamese dancing, marionettes from Java-will be exhibited by natives in the native fashion, not vaudevillized or adapted to U. S. taste. Mr. Geddes is going to suggest an island supper club, in which the dance floor is separated from the dining space by tiny canals. He will propose an open air cabaret which has permanent runways, like hollow walls, winding among the tables. The performers will dance and sing above. The waiters will scurry through the hollows below. The plans...
...Fess attacked the party loyalty cf Idaho's Senator Borah. Senator Borah struck back, accused Senator Fess of being the President's political slave (see p. 10). Disturbed, the President summoned Senator & Mrs. Borah to the White House for Sunday luncheon. Senator Fess he invited for Sunday supper. Senator Borah went away smiling but uncommunicative. Senator Fess looked about the same next...