Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Swedish Academy of Sciences gave a good imitation of an arch housewife who, having made her family believe they would get nothing but pork & beans for supper, bounces beaming out of the kitchen with a big, beautiful platter of cookies. Three weeks ago the Academy, which awards Nobel Prizes in science, bestowed the 1938 and 1939 prizes in Physiology & Medicine on Corneille Heymans of Belgium and Gerhard Domagk of Germany, gave newshawks to believe that no more awards would be forthcoming this year. Apparently the Academy changed its mind. For last week it announced four more prizewinners...
Last week in London talent and adman alike twiddled, hoped that once war got in the groove, radio might again be able to sing for its supper. Radio Normandie has a snug little building around a corner from BBC's showy (and now sandbagged) Broadcasting House. Like everybody else in London, Radio Normandie's outpost dug in, fitted up a sub-basement air-raid shelter complete with telephones, desks, transcription machinery, eating, sleeping, toilet facilities for its staff of 200; a phonograph for dull hours...
...buffet supper and reception at the Union tonight will be the opening events in a three day program designed to acquaint incoming Freshmen with studies and extra-curricular activities at the University. The buffet supper will begin at 6:30 o'clock while the reception will follow...
...reception at the Union at 7:30 o'clock. Other speakers will be Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress; the Reverend Willard L. Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers; and Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admission. The reception will be preceded by a buffet supper in the Union at 6:30 o'clock...
...Buffet supper at Harvard Union. All Union activities are open equally to the Freshmen living in the dormitories and those living at home...