Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rehearses a new play. There is no time out for luncheon?she eats raw eggs and drinks coffee on the go. From 3:30 to 5:30 she rehearses an old play which is being put back in repertory. Then there is a half-hour before dinner for interviews or seeing friends. After dinner she naps for a half-hour before going to her dressing room for the evening's appearance. For efficiency's sake she lives on the roof of her theatre, with her four dogs and several canaries. The predominant color of the menage and all that...
...damages respectively. In 1927 the Reynolds car ran into the Swope car, injuring Mr. Swope's nose, cutting Mrs, Swope's face, making them both nervous ever since. Testifying to the speed they were going, Colyumist Heywood Campbell Broun, who was riding to dinner with the Swopes, said: "When my wife [Ruth Hale] goes over 30 miles an hour I tell her to pull down." Testifying as to whether he had feared being late for the dinner, Mr. Swope boomed: "A dinner given by city people living in the country is a nonfixed feast as to time...
...money was "no good" even to porters, dining car stewards, boot-blacks. They were all primed in advance. He traveled to Manhattan as the "guest" of railroad presidents, hotel owners, Mayor James John Walker and everyone he met. Friends scheduled every hour of his time, to luncheons, matinees, dinners, surprise soirees. In Washington he was received and cared for by his good friend and Palo Alto neighbor, Herbert Clark Hoover. President Hoover and other members of the Bohemian Club relish, among other famed Folger stunts, his dialog between two Chinese missionaries. Another famed Folgerism: preventing Morris Gest from making...
Wags. Wall Street has long had its own private store of wisecracks, but not until this year did stockmarket gags glut the revues and become current at U. S. dinner tables. Upon a tense, avid public, the market break released a flood of cracks, good & bad, new & old, clean & smutty. Foreign visitors, expecting a glum, panic-stricken people, were amazed to find a new joke for each new catastrophe. Among cracks more or less good, new, clean...
Most such Chicagoans send their children to eastern colleges.* But they are city-loyal to the extent of attending an induction ceremony and they respect the aura of culture which the Chicago faculty casts over fashionable Chicago dinner tables...