Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light supper and a few last "quickies" from the bar brought the afternoon to a close, and '37 boarded their buses for the North Shore Music Theatre. There they were entertained by an original show billed as the class "extravaganza," which had been in rehearsal during the afternoon...
...time: April 1920. The place: a shabby eighth-floor attic in Moscow, where Yuli Martov, a leader of the defeated Social Democrats, is in hiding. As he is cooking supper on a tiny stove, he is interrupted by Sofia Markovna, a secret emissary from Lenin. Martov and Lenin were once the closest friends when both were Social Democrats, but since Lenin turned Bolshevik and later seized power, Martov is Lenin's bitterest enemy. Whispers the messenger: kindly Lenin, taking pity on his old buddy, has arranged to whisk Martov out of town before he is arrested. A seat...
...time he was a bus boy in Atlantic City; at another, he and his close friend, Painter Raphael Soyer, enrolled in a class to learn machine embroidery. When Gross got married, friends had to help out. "Someone bought me a ring; someone else provided the wedding supper, and a third bought the marriage license." All the while he studied art, but before 1935, the year he won a $3,000 commission from the Treasury Department, Gross sold only an occasional statue for $10 and a few watercolors for $1 apiece...
Change of Plan. On the fatal night, Resnick ate a quiet supper and told his wife he was going out for a stroll. "He put on his coat and left, but without kissing me, which he usually did," Lillian Resnick recalls. A block from his home, Resnick spotted the Studebaker. The killers had told him they would stalk him in the street, shoot him in the back of the head, and collect their pay from his pockets...
Williams got $65 a month as a clerk-typist and odd-job man. Though he now jokes about his rise "from shoe biz to show biz," he hated the job. He would begin the day dusting shoes, "thousands and thousands of shoes." Nights, right after supper, he would go to his room, which was just big enough to hold...