Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followed by discussion of the Biblical texts at 9:30. At 10:30 there is a coffee break. From ii to lunchtime (12:30) members do manual labor. From 1 to 4 is free time-recreation, meditation, prayer. An afternoon discussion period lasts from 4 to 6, followed by supper. There is an evening discussion at 7:30, and the day ends with evening prayer service at 9. The rule of silence is observed from the end of prayer until the next morning...
Planned festivities began yesterday with an informal get-together at the Hasty Pudding, followed by an informal reception and cocktail party for President and Mrs. Pusey at Harkness Commons. The reception, held outdoors in the Harkness courtyard, was followed by buffet supper at the Graduate Center...
Dallying in the Senate's ornate dining room over a late supper, Ohio's John Bricker drew a quarter from his pocket as he mulled over a problem with New York's Irving Ives and Utah's Arthur Watkins. Each was a ranking contender for the chair on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee left empty by Joe McCarthy's death, and it was Bricker's job, as chairman of the Republican Committee on Committees, to make the choice. Ordinarily, the nod would have gone to the Republican with the greater seniority. Bricker...
...tornadoes, kicked out of a vicious thunderstorm. The U.S. Weather Bureau's radar showed it by early evening as the hooked tail on an egg-shaped thunderstorm blob moving northeastward across Kansas one day last week. At 6:30 p.m., as the Missouri city was settling down to supper, a storm-warning volunteer near Williamsburg, Kans., 70 miles southwest of the city, backstopped the radar. In the storm's ugly grey clouds, he telephoned, was a groping funnel. Ten minutes later, urged on by bulletins from three television and seven radio stations. Kansas City's householders began...
...federal cabaret tax plainly had something to do with it (instrumental music only, without dancing or floor show, is not considered entertainment under the law, hence is tax-free). The Vanguard's Max Gordon (who also owns a part of Manhattan's still flourishing Blue Angel supper club) blames the shift to the suburbs: "My old customers have been lost to Great Neck." Broadway Producer Richard Kollmar once accused the LP record: "When you had the 78s, you had to get up and change the damned things every few minutes, so you got bored and went...