Word: suppers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nice scenes and bits: the Brothers cramping more & more tables onto the already crowded dance-floor of a supper club; the extraction, from a de luxe wine bottle, of a cork so gigantic that it leaves no room for wine; Groucho's love scenes with the femme fatale, interrupted by innumerable moves from room to room, and as gruesomely encumbered (with roses, iced champagne and all the paraphernalia of sophisticated seduction) as an old-fashioned family picnic...
...evening meal (high tea) consists of fish (cod, sardines, herring) or a bit of cheese, tea and crackers. For supper there is tea and bread...
Hoarding for Safety. We arrived in late afternoon, the time for the peasants' wives to be making supper-if they had any. We were met by three expressionless, grimy, starving boys. The abdomen of one was distended until he could not fasten his ragged garment over it; his translucent, putty-pale, bare skin showed a blue network of blood vessels...
...skeletal, sad-eyed women were preparing a watery gruel for supper, composed of green weeds and splintery, hard rice husks...
...Council had pointed out that most places of entertainment opened at eight, thereby leaving a student no place to go in the time lag after supper, but the Masters pointed out that a couple, having left the House for supper "might as well stay out." To the argument advanced by the Council that the proposed change would not violate the principles already established by the Oxford Card system, the Masters replied merely that--with the College working its way back to its traditional position, no further relaxation was desirable...