Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides Mr. Saltonstall, the speakers who addressed the class following a buffet supper, included A. C. Hanford, dean of Harvard College, and W. L. Sperry, dean of the Theological School and chairman of the Board of Preachers. Welcoming the class to Harvard, Dean Hanford touched upon a few highlights in the history of the University and explained the purpose of the House Plan. President Lowell was present but did not speak...
...jittering in a Bavarian asylum? He was not. Handsome Adolf was actually high in the Bavarian Alps with a few intimate friends, slowly flailing the chalky waters of mountain streams for speckled brown trout which his quiet sister boiled till blue and served on lettuce leaves for the Hitler supper. Even so the lunacy legend kept the chief Nazi pressagent, a former Manhattan print dealer named Ernst Franz Hanfstaengl, busy for two days issuing angry denials. The story was inspired apparently by two bad-tempered and most inopportune messages which the bristle-lipped leader issued immediately after live Nazis were...
...barbecue supper was served near the lake. Much corn whiskey produced a general fog of intoxication. Mrs. Reynolds, demonstrating that she could "drink just like a man," got drunk. Her husband grew moody as the evening progressed. He seemed at odds with his wife. About midnight Mrs. Reynolds threw her arms around young Walker, exclaiming: "Smith doesn't love me any more." When her husband heard about it, he gloomily remarked: "Ab, I don't blame you. I blame Libby. She's that kind of a girl. . . . I'm going to end it all. Here...
...looked down on it, I found myself getting afraid. When I came across there before it didn't bother me a bit." Then Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau rose, clicked his heels, bowed his visitors out, went to sleep while Montreal Teutons waited hopefully to toast him at a midnight supper...
...customary optimism, the romantic confidence, of youth, were absent. . . ." Most characteristic humor of the town was "a faintly bitter but undisturbed acceptance, of all, all, the realities of existence." To make the realities of existence less onerous for some of them Author Hergesheimer did his best. He took supper at the Swedish Pavilion "with a girl I found swimming at the Freibad," treated her to wild strawberries, lake trout, caviar. He took her home, a 40-minute taxicab ride, left her, grim with amazement at such extravagance, near her door...