Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deck of the Queen of Bermuda, three hours out of Hamilton bound" for Manhattan, a husky youngster in knee breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked...
...cancan. Chicagoans left the opera house marveling at what Dancer Page had accomplished with a comparatively new troupe, marveling at the courage and energy it required to attempt to emancipate opera ballet. After the performance Dancer Page took her first recreation in weeks, went to a champagne supper which Harold Fowler McCormick gave for Paul Drennan Cravath, chairman of the Metropolitan Opera, who traveled from Manhattan to see Ruth Page's ballets...
Ruby, Darling of the Debs, brings his first-string band and a female vocalist to cater to the demands of the members of the Kirkland House. A midnight supper will be served and tickets are priced at $3 per couple and $2 stag if purchased before the dance but the price of the couple ticket will be increased to $3.50 if bought at the door...
...Vermilion, Ohio (pop. 1,464) one evening last week, neither the poetry of Robert Browning nor the novels of Willa Cather were uppermost in the minds of Mrs. Marvell Snyder, wife of the school superintendent, or Mrs. Bessie Roscoe, wife of the Vermilion News editor, as they finished the supper dishes and hurried around to the home of Mrs. Zella English, wife of the Congregational minister. Occasion was a meeting of the Sorosis Club, Vermilion's select female literary-social organization. For the past five months culture had been almost forgotten as the Sorosis Club and all Vermilion rocked...
From 9.00 until 2.00 o'clock there will be dancing in the Common Room, while an amplifier system will permit overflow into the dining, hall, where a midnight supper will be served...