Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...music, to be denominated Pierian Sodality. A few days later laws were composed, and within a month serenading had been begun. On March 6, 1809, the first anniversary was celebrated. After the election of officers the members adjourned to Mr. Morse's where they partook of a most excellent supper. After the meal a number of very appropriate songs were sung and toasts drunk. The greatest order and harmony were observed during the entertainment; when the members retired to their chambers their conduct was such as did honor to themselves and the Society to which they belong...
...Rumors that the Drum Corps was to have a champagne supper at the Vendome proved to be unfounded...
...which exists only in manuscripts which I have in my keeping, music written by men now living who will rank as high a century from now as Mozart or Beethoven!" No enemy to Jazz is Koussevitzky. It is stated of him that in London one night, stopping at a supper-club for a bite, he heard some young Americans rendering their native melodies. He listened; his bite grew cold. "I like good music," said...
Thereupon, Father and Uncle George arrange a supper party with the latter lady, hoping, with the unpleasant intolerance of Babbitt opinion about chorus girls, that they can ward her off with wealth. By a curious coincidence common to the stage, Sister is in the same cafe with the family chauffeur, and Brother is somewhere downstairs, very drunk, and jealous because his fragile flower is getting her evening's fodder at the expense of two elderly unknowns. By the end of the scene everybody has strayed into everybody's else private dining room and there is a great deal...
Elkdom's origin dates from one November night In 1867, when an English comic singer landed in Manhattan, strolled down Lispenard Street, dropped into a "Free and Easy," sang songs for his supper, made friends. The friends threw dice for their drink but the Cockney showed them a better game: dropping corks on the bar and picking them up, the last man to recover his cork standing treat...