Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cocktails and a lobster dinner will be served at Essex at noon and supper and drinks from...
...American medical student named Ben Spock, who owned a resplendent red handlebar mustache and an oilcloth blackboard. After a ten-hour day of shoveling gravel and sand to keep the railroad track from sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become a pediatrician and won wide fame as an expert on the horticulture of babies. "They thought...
...Tokyo was quiet again. The royal couple ate an early supper, read the evening papers, watched themselves for a while on TV. Finally, the 80-year-old Chief Ritualist and his wife brought in the four silver trays with the 26 rice cakes that would remain on the bedroom altar for three days to ensure the early arrival of an heir. At 10 p.m., lights went out at the Eastern Palace...
...Mary, Negro Cinemactress Dorothy Dandridge, who has finished her chores as Bess in Sam Goldwyn's forthcoming movie version of Porgy and Bess, hoisted the conventional pretty wave for the flashbulbs on the day of a proud revelation: her engagement to Jack Denison, white proprietor of a Hollywood supper club...
Piaf sings all this with the authority of a little girl who used to sing for her supper on the streets of Montmartre, but was too proud to pick up the pennies. A friend did that for her. Nor did her later success ever take her far from trouble. A 1949 airplane crash killed World Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, who is still remembered as her great love. A marriage to French Singer Jacques Peals ended in divorce. Says she: "I am a very faithful woman, very serious about marriage. I have a lover who came with me to America...