Word: luncheon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Elizabeth did her bit last week by eating a threepenny (5?) luncheon in a rural home for evacuated London slum children, proclaiming it "very good." It was announced that Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose would send Christmas presents to evacuated French children...
There will be a luncheon tomorrow in the Sanctum before the Army game. All editors are invited, yea, encouraged to bring dates (or "drags," as we Army men say). Luncheon will be served at 12:15 sharp and the bowl will flow at noon...
Whatever effect the U. S. move might have on world affairs, and however Joe Stalin replied, general agreement was that it was popular in the U. S. At the National Press Club in Washington, where generally foregather the most cynical, disgusted, acid-eyed newsmen on earth, a routine luncheon turned into an emotional spree: gathering to hear about news broadcasting in Europe, reporters spied Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé in the audience, cheered him to the rafters...
...young man Baron Mannerheim fought as a Tsarist officer in the Russo-Japanese war, later was a member of Tsar Nicholas II's personal retinue. His continued prominence in Finland is the measure of its firm anti-Bolshevism. In August of this year Baron Mannerheim attended the luncheon given by Governor of the Bank of Finland Risto Ryti for vacationing U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. whose "purely social" visit to Helsinki included a tour of Finnish cooperative stores and modernistic workmen's flats...
...speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, stood smiling with his blue-frocked bride. The ceremony was followed by a large buffet luncheon party at Admiralty House, complete with dukes and duchesses, where Winston downed two goblets of champagne, munched ice cream, commented lugubriously: "We must eat, we must...