Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welcomed to our very "Christmas Evey" party a tall man in his thirties, with a weather-beaten face and intense blue eyes surrounded by the tiny wrinkles which come from long years at sea. It was Lieut. Capt. Helmuth von Mücke. We sat down to Christmas Eve dinner about 8 o'clock. At midnight coffee was served (also Christmas cookies), but not until 3 o'clock in the morning did anyone think of the time or of moving from their places. We heard at first hand the story of those now world-famous exploits...
...repeated, ominous lifeboat drills and inspections before & after war was declared by Britain on Sept. 3. He remarked the fact that the Athenia was still floating some 14 hours after being damaged, said he had heard British destroyers finally sank her as a dangerous derelict. Mr. Anderson was at dinner when the explosion occurred. He had nothing to say about what he thought caused the blast...
Whenever a U. S. Ambassador arrives in Tokyo, whether for the first time or after home leave, he is tendered a dinner of welcome by the America-Japan Society, a frequent sounding board for the two countries' relationships. Five years ago Ambassador Grew returned to Tokyo after a furlough. The America-Japan Society's welcoming speech was made by suave, old Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, one of Japan's most subtle diplomats, then Privy Councilor. Viscount Ishii amazed everyone by saying that a war between Japan and the U. S. was remote unless "the U. S. ever attempted...
Last week Ambassador Grew was again back in Tokyo after four months at home. The America-Japan Society again gave the usual dinner. This time Joseph Grew made a speech which was not only unusual: it was virtually unprecedented in ambassadorial usage. The Ambassador gave his distinguished audience an earful which made many of them wish for deafness. He used an unofficial occasion to express an official, definitely controversial, exceedingly ticklish point of view. His words, he said, "came straight from the horse's mouth . . . and mind you, I know whereof I speak...
Knitting became the acceptable conversational topic at Mayfair dinner tables, even male ARPers knitting to pass the time. Female knitters are called Sister Susies after the popular World War I song: Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers, Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows, Some soldiers send epistles, Say they'd sooner sleep in thistles, Than the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews...