Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, 'I think not. I've been vaccinated against all that stuff;' and I guess they concluded the vaccination took because I was not invited to the next Fahy dinner...
Senator Brookhart defended himself: "No man can invite me to a dinner where crime is in evidence and say to me that because of his confidence as a host I shall conceal the crime. . . . That is the thing that makes trouble in this country . . . these infernal secret societies in high society. ... I want to say to members of the Senate, GET OUT OF THOSE BOOZE PARTIES. You do not need those hip flasks to enable you to do your duty here...
Also invited before the Grand Jury was Railman Loomis who appeared in Washington in no sweet mood. Said he: "You don't expect ME to discuss anything that happens at a private dinner, do you? You'll have to rely on the laboratory experience and smelling propensities of Senator Brookhart...
...prison walls, permitted to drive trucks to Wilmington unaccompanied. Escapes are rare. The convicts themselves deliver discipline, ostracize rule-breakers. The inmates are given piecework, earn money for cigarets. clothes, sweets. During the day they wear blue denim work clothes, in the evening they dress like citizens for dinner...
...wind things up properly Driver Cooke gave a dinner. Beside him sat Chancellor Samuel Paul Capen, son of Elmer Hewitt Capen (onetime Tufts College President), acquired with the new campus in 1922. Stirringly spoke Trustee Cooke: "You are going to be the keepers of the city's honor in your lifetime." Of Chancellor Capen's predecessor he said: "Think of good old Charley Norton, serving with unflagging energy and faith for so many years! Maybe somewhere he is listening in tonight...