Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manila, shattered by the Japs' fanatic fury in February, the Japs were quartered at the damaged but serviceable Rosaria Apartments. Supper (by chance, a little better than usual) was sent over from a nearby general officers' mess. Kawabe showed a huge roll of U.S. money, sent an American orderly out for six cartons of U.S. cigarets. Then the envoys were whisked to the heavily damaged, hastily repaired City Hall where MacArthur and his staff have their headquarters...
...eyed peas, tomatoes, buttered biscuits and iced tea. He ate hungrily, flashing appreciative grins at his mother. Looking down at him, at the skinny outline of his body under the sheet, she thought: "The first meal I've cooked Jimmy in five years. Will it be his last supper?" But she smiled back...
From noon today through supper on Sunday, all new Freshmen will take their meals in what has been known for over a decade as the Kirkland House dining hall; beginning Monday, those members of the Class of '49 living in Gore and Standish Halls will eat in Gore...
Last week the Allied Commission announced that Leonardo da Vinci's faded, dusty masterpiece, The Last Supper, had survived time, bungling repairs and bombs. The convent's roof had been destroyed in August 1943, but the wall painting, no longer protected by sandbags and steel scaffolding, was again on view. Only one retouching job would be necessary: a four-inch square in the tunic of St. James the Greater...
...answer. To this day, halting before a tuft of the plant I press it and it recalls that answer in its fragrance." In "the general security of life . . . 'we fleeted the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world': with tennis and cricket ... dances . . . supper picnics beside the river, return on the ebb with laughter [and] soft choruses muted to a twilight mood and to the rhythm of oars that dipped into pools of phosphorescence [with the] young and fair moving in bevies and clusters on a green lawn in frocks of sprigged muslin . . . wide floral hats...