Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his good and wealthy friend, Willys-Overland Executive Ward Canaday, asked him to attend a businessman's dinner party at the Statler Hotel last week, Harry Truman obligingly agreed. He was under the impression that no more than 15 or 20 men would attend, and that he would not be obliged to speak. At dinnertime, he got into his dinner jacket, slipped quietly over to the hotel for a few hours of comfortable relaxation...
...Fear of Fear. Nehru delivered a major address at a dinner given jointly by the Foreign Policy Association, the India League of America, the East and West Association, and the American Institute of Pacific Relations, in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom. Said he: "People talk about India's desire for leadership in Asia. We have no desire for leadership . . . [But] whether we want to or not ... we have to play an important role . . . There is no halfway house . . . Either India makes good [or] she just fades away...
This afternoon, solicitors will continue to canvass those who have already signed up. Students may still volunteer by seeing their house captains or by dropping their sign-up blanks in the dining-hall deposit boxes. Volunteering will continue through dinner tonight...
...supper, scheduled for December 14 in Agassiz will consist only of dessert and coffee this year, but will be free. Since the affair is the one all-college get-together aside from formal opening, the Sophomores felt that no admission should be charged. Regular dinner will be served in the dormitories before the supper and an effort will be made to invite as many commuters as possible...
...wall. The birds must peck at this button at least once every five minutes to be paid off with food. The eager but ignorant pigcon, however, not knowing he will get the same reward with less exertion, will hammer away rapidly for great lengths of time to get his dinner...