Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Oriental splendiferousness is extremely expensive. A newly formed Italian-American krewe spent $50,000 for this year's ball; the cost of all 49 would total half a million dollars. Supper parties for 49 carnival queens-one of whom wore a costume worth $3,500-would come to another $350,000. Merchants guessed that New Orleans women would spend three or four million dollars for clothes and trips to beauty parlors...
...ceased fire, and a transport commander said complacently to a Marine colonel: "Everything's done over there. You'll walk in." Replied the colonel: "If you think it's that easy why don't you come on the beach at five o'clock, have supper with me, and pick up a few souvenirs...
...time was 4:50 p.m. The 1,200 prisoners had finished supper. In Cell Block No. 6, known as Little Siberia, where Warden Best keeps the toughest 232 of his charges, a guard stepped out on a routine cell check. Suddenly, he was cracked over the head with an iron...
Presentation of an old English 1 hit, "The Second Shepherd's Play," will keynote Radcliffe's traditional pre-Christmas supper and entertainment, sponsored as always by the 'Cliffe sophomore class and scheduled for this evening in Agassiz House...
Bands of itinerant troubadors warbling carols and a short recorder concert will sustain the medieval theme of the evening during the supper which 500 undergraduates are scheduled to attend...