Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cody jail one night, when Deputy Sheriff Noah Riley took Earl Durand's supper to his cell, the huge, hairy youth picked him up like a puppy, took his keys, grabbed a rifle, forced the deputy to drive him to the Durand ranch. Under-Sheriff D. M. Baker and Marshal Charles E. Lewis followed. Earl Durand dropped them dead in their tracks with just three shots from his rifle, one wasted. Then he clubbed Deputy Riley unconscious, made his father put up provisions, headed for the snowy mountains...
...ballots, which had to be signed, read simply "Do you want an election of Class Officers?" and the voting was held in the Union during lunch and supper...
...satire on petit-bourgeois respectability. This diminution of scale undoubtedly gives the play piquancy; but it proves fatal so far as evoking the unique spirit of Jesus is concerned. Though not at all irreverent, Family Portrait has none of the feeling that went into painting The Last Supper; rather the cleverness that goes into engraving the Lord's Prayer on the head...
...excitingly near. Welles has gone; Hepburn has come; the opera sells itself out. The first paragraph of a news story reads: "Czechoslovakia was." Just Czechoslovakia was, period. A character in Shaw's "Pygmalion" snaps: "Yes, I said 'God' and I meant every word of it!" Daylight lengthens, but supper is still its deadline. Students eat goldfish, and dog food, and the ice cream record falls...
Reaction from both Arabs and Jews was immediate. Jewish delegates refused to attend an official luncheon given in their honor by the British Government. Said one Jew: "It would be like going to a Last Supper, with the British Government as Judas." Day after the British suggestions had been made known, the Jewish delegation officially rejected them as a basis for further negotiations, but suggested they would continue their peace negotiations with the British and Arabs on some other basis. U. S. Ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy told British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax that the British plan would have...