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Word: suppers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman at the piano was now rendering "Slaughter on 10th Avenue." My third tonic bottle was emptied, and I headed for supper, passing, on the way out, one guest with a Boy Scout badge in his lapel. Only one of the freshmen had been in uniform--khakis and blazer--and most wore matching coats and trousers. It won't be so in four years...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...Supper Menu. To prepare for his boss job, urbane, unpretentious Field touched most of the bases from driver's helper on a delivery truck to classified-ad salesman, police reporter and editorial writer. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and a wartime Navy officer in the South Pacific, he is a bit to the right of his newspaper's longtime stand in politics. A Democrat but no rooting-tooting Fair Dealer ("I'm a liberal conservative"), he thinks that "welfare capitalism" is a better answer than the "welfare state," believes that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Marsh Moves In | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Field's new toned-down look for the morning Sun-Times has already kicked up an office gag: "Now we won't have rape for breakfast any more. Just for supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Marsh Moves In | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...talked about its "animal implications." At the same time, she got a great kick out of spying on Achilles and Polyxena as they made love in a grove outside the walls of Troy. It was also true that looking at her musclebound Vulcan after he bathed made her forget supper and the problems of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Things Homer Never Knew | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...morphine bottle," Mary Chesnut wrote of her trip from Charleston to the secession conference in Montgomery, Ala. "I felt a nervous dread and horror of this break with so great a power as the United States, but I was ready and willing." In Montgomery she went to supper with Governor Moore ("The old sinner has been making himself ridiculous with that little actress Maggie Mitchell"). She saw a Negro woman sold into slavery: "My very soul sickened." She said to a Northern-born woman: "If you can stand that, no other Southern thing need choke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1861-65, Unexpurgated | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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