Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find a tale which talks through its own logic instead of requiring attempts to explain outside the narrative, he may well become a really successful story-teller. At present, however, his story compels you to read until, arriving at the end, you find that there is nothing there but supper...
...dinner." It wasn't. There wasn't a black tie there, and the "red tartan dinner jacket" that Stevenson wore is not a dinner jacket but a dilapidated spare coat. You say "with only his really good friends in politics invited." There were two people for supper at his house that night: Stevenson and a friend from out of town, George Ball. Stevenson's law partner Bill Wirtz and his wife arrived about 10 o'clock; later in the evening Stevenson's sister, Mrs. Ives, and a family friend arrived. These people are hardly described...
...morning, during a smoke break, he had found some of the recruits stretched out on the grass, even sleeping, in totally un-bootlike posture. Although it was Sunday, he had ordered a "field day" -a complete cleanup of the barracks with swab, scrub brush, creosote and yellow soap. At supper that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown of the already bleach...
...date of the last Communion celebrated in Memorial Church is uncertain. Buttrick said that Edward Cadwell Moore, University Preacher from 1915 to 1929, observed the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper regularly three times each year. Buttrick's predecessor, the late Dean Willard L. Sperry, held Communion only intermittently at the start of his tenure...
Litany will be based on the Beatitudes, and, Buttrick observed, the form of service probably has antecedents in the traditional Scottish order. Anyone professing faith will be welcome at the Lord's Supper Celebration, Buttrick stated...