Word: supper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offset their full schedule of appearances the men will find many suppers, teas, and dances, offered for their entertainment. The Louisville concert will be preceded by a tea dance and will be followed by a ball at the Pendennts Club. Previous to the performance in Washington there will be supper and dancing in the Garden Room of the Hotel Mayflower...
...Mark's dining hall where all can gloat over the shame of the Groton mule. Just as Eton has its "fives" (a handball game played between the buttresses and against the walls of Eton chapel), so St. Mark's has its "cloister ball." Each evening after supper students swarm to the open cloister which bounds the fourth side of St. Mark's brick-and-timber quadrangle. A tennis ball is thrown across one of the iron tie-rods in the cloister roof, the object being to strike the succeeding tie-rod, catch the ball on the rebound...
...Then he reminded me of a night when we had a frugal supper together in a Bloomsbury restaurant?it must have been 40 years ago?when he was a medical student and I was a city clerk. Our combined wealth was insufficient to save us from walking as far as Holloway station...
...content with this triumph over the system he plans a still more drastic experiment and refuses an invitation to Sunday night supper in order to test the effect of seven dinenrs, seven lunches, and no breakfast. Sunday night he gets an even greater thrill, for by eating all his breakfasts in the Square, which is a great inconvenience because he has no nine o'clock and being, as you see, a conscientious fellow, has reserved this hour for study in his room, he finds that he has received $9.80 worth of food for only $8.50. But just...
...fancy supper will be served to guests somewhat after midnight, at which time the various entertainments will be presented...