Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...describes herself as homeless, without a possession in the world, and terribly busy. Fortnight hence, after the Dec. 7 premiere of her "beloved crony" Cole Porter's new musical Seven Lively Arts, she plans to give a party for the cast. "They've got to have supper somewhere. They might as well have it with...
Fishermen's Last Supper, Second Version, painted after the drowning of two young Nova Scotia fishermen with whose family Hartley lived one summer. At table, five of the family face three empty chairs. Two chairs are decorated with flowers; the third was Hartley's-"I couldn't paint myself...
...scores for 16 hours at a stretch. His popular songs had titles like How Do I Love Thee, Spring's First Kiss, I Love Thee So, Can I Forget. He wrote concert reviews for many years on the old New York World and Journal. In 1920, attending a supper in his honor, 60-year-old Reginald de Koven was stricken with apoplexy. He died a few minutes later...
There was a light Hyde Park supper of scrambled eggs, his "lucky dish." Then the President sat down to the old game at which he is expert-tabulating election returns. Supper dishes and cloth were whisked away; tally sheets and sharpened pencils were laid on the green felt cover. The big radio, provided by NBC, began to announce returns. Secretary Grace Tully and Mrs. Ruth Rumelt, Steve Early's secretary, moved in & out with flashes from A.P. and U.P. tickers. Around the big-table, individual state scores were kept by the President's intimates: Henry Morgenthau, Admiral Leahy...
...cotillion "was the main event of the ball, beginning at midnight, after supper. Your partner's first act was to secure a pair of chairs by tying them together with a handkerchief. These were all placed around the ballroom in front of the benches reserved for chaperons and unlucky girls who had no partners. The leader of the cotillion had absolute powers; his word was law. He rarely took a partner, and so was free to direct the dancing. At a signal from him, a certain number of couples-six, ten, twelve, as the case might be-danced through...