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Dinner at Eight
Dinner at Eight (1932), a play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. [Music Box, 232 perf.] The guests invited to the dinner party of Millicent Jordan ( Ann Andrews) have all seemed to reach turning points in their lives. Larry Renault ( Conway Tearle), a broke, alcoholic, fading matinee idol,... Read more |
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Dinner
DINNER DINNER. Dinner is the important meal in the daily or another cycle of meals, typically requiring more formal culinary arrangements, table trappings, and etiquette, and probably more abundant foods and drinks. While rural households have tended to share the main daily meal during daylight... Read more |
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Groceries
TV Dinner TV dinners are frozen trays of pre-cooked food. Also known as frozen dinners, they are assembled automatically on a conveyor system. In this process, the food is initially prepared and cooked. It is then placed on the trays and rapidly frozen. The concept of a... Read more |
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Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (Judy Gerowitz Chicago) , 1939-, American artist, b. Chicago as Judy Cohen. A feminist and founder of the Women's Art Education collective, she works in a variety of media, including such historically female crafts as needlework and china painting. Her best-known work, The Dinner... Read more |
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wayzgoose
wayzgoose an annual summer dinner or outing held by a printing house for its employees. The term is recorded from the mid 18th century, as an alteration of the earlier waygoose; there is no evidence as to its etymology (there is, for instance, nothing to suggest that goose was eaten at the dinner).... Read more |
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Multiplier
MULTIPLIER The multiplier is a conceptual tool used to capture the complicated process by which changes in spending affect a nation's income. It is based on the idea that a small change in spending can bring about a much larger change in income. Consider the following example as an illustration of... Read more |
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Dinner Jacket
Dinner Jacket The dinner jacket emerged from an era when it was considered proper for upper-class men to dress formally for the evening meal. A comfortable, less formal alternative to a tailcoat, a jacket with long flaps in the back, the dinner jacket, or tuxedo jacket as it is sometimes called,... Read more |
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Seder
Seder a Jewish ritual service and ceremonial dinner for the first night or first two nights of Passover. The name comes from Hebrew sēḏer ‘order, procedure’.... Read more |
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Milton Stover Eisenhower
Milton Eisenhower Milton Eisenhower (1899-1985) gained national recognition for his careers in government and higher education. He was best known for his advisory role to his older brother, President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He also served presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M.... Read more |
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fund-raising
fund-raising large-scale soliciting of voluntary contributions, especially in the United States. Fund-raising is widely undertaken by charitable organizations, educational institutions, and political groups to acquire sufficient funds to support their activities. Among the methods used are... Read more |
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