Bandstand features Hal DeCicco, pianist, for both dinner hour and the late trade.

In Western Europe the fashionable hour for dinner began to be incrementally postponed during the 18th century, to two and three in the afternoon, until at the time of the First French Empire an English traveller to Paris remarked upon the " abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening ".

As it was the dinner hour, all the soldiers were in barracks.

Telemarketing calls are often considered an annoyance, especially when they occur during the dinner hour, early in the morning, or late in the evening.

The wedding included cocktails for an hour before the reception and a sit-down dinner.

In addition to the haute cuisine offered at luncheon and dinner, tea at the Ritz became a fashionable institution in Paris, and later in London, though it caused Escoffier real distress: " How can one eat jam, cakes and pastries, and enjoy a dinner – the king of meals – an hour or two later?

Happy hour can also be referred to as the period prior to dinner, where appetizers and drinks are served at one's home.

Many of the sandwich shops and coffeehouses that cater to neighborhood workers close before the dinner hour, as do the many street vendors.

Lunch, often lasting over an hour is served between noon and 2 o ' clock or between 1 and 3 o ' clock, and dinner is generally served late, around or after 8 o ' clock.

* After the dinner, some canons rested while others conversed until the hour of Nones, or 3 p. m. when the canons proceeded to church for another service after which, the community were required to wash their hands and wait in the cloister until summoned to the refectory to drink.

The clock strikes four, reminding him that he and Sally are supposed to be at their grandmother's home for dinner in half an hour.

Instead of having lunch, he then went to the library where he worked through the afternoon and evening, taking half an hour for dinner.

They were traditionally thought of as a " destination " where patrons would go to spend the whole evening, from cocktail hour to enjoying night club style entertainment after dinner.

On the vigil of St. Peter the Apostle 30 1147 we arrived there at the dinner hour.

One hour prior to the main dinner and show, guests are seated in a " Carriage Room " where they view an opening act.

In 1984 KWHY launched Video 22, a 3 hour, weekday afternoon rock video show which had the slogan " We cook for 3 hours before dinner.

They have an hour for lunch and dinner, and return to their apartment by 9 pm, or 9: 30 if they are in the process of teaching a lesson at the end of the day.

In the 18th century, as the fashionable dinner hour was incrementally moved later into the afternoon, the morning reception of the British monarch, attended only by gentlemen, was shifted forward towards noon.

He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread out like a serpent with two heads.

The scarred, disfigured wrists of Mr. Jaggers' housekeeper are the tell-tale marks of her sinister past, for her master, coolly exhibiting them to his dinner guests, makes a point of the `` force of grip there is in these hands ''.

According to A & E Biography, there is also a belief among some Russians that Stalin himself murdered his wife after the quarrel, which apparently took place at a dinner in which Stalin tauntingly flicked cigarettes across the table at her.

The meetings were monthly, and there would be a dinner afterwards.

After dinner, he tells the farm laborers a fictitious tale of himself: He was born in Crete, had led a party of Cretans to fight alongside other Greeks in the Trojan War, and had then spent seven years at the court of the king of Egypt ; finally he had been shipwrecked in Thesprotia and crossed from there to Ithaca.

The pain is too much ... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning-I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo.

* Trimalchio is referred to in the novel Pompeii by Robert Harris, where the character Numerius Popidius Ampliatus, also a freed slave who has become wealthy, throws a great, but ghastly, dinner party where there is too much for everyone to eat.

However, if the wedding reception takes place in southern China, Hong Kong, Macau, and even parts of Canada ( where there is a large Cantonese population ), májiàng might still be played before the dinner.

Brontë is invited to a dinner party to discuss the issue and discovers Georges is there, having been asked by Lauren.

Old Mrs. Portman has asked us twenty times, I am sure, within the last two years ," she replies, with " a look of ineffable scorn ," that when " the last time we went there, there was pea-soup for dinner!

Supper may refer to, on largely class-based distinctions, either a late-evening snack ( working and middle class usage ) or to make a distinction between " supper " as an informal family meal ( which would be eaten in the kitchen or family dining room ) as opposed to " dinner "; generally a grander affair ( either or both in terms of the meal and the courses within the meal itself ), which would be eaten in the best dining room, may well have guests from outside the household, and for which there may be a dress code.

Currently popular are live " whodunit " experiences, including game form, where guests at a private party might use cards, a board, or video from a pre-packaged box, to perform the roles of the suspects and detective ; and there are a number of murder mystery dinner theaters, where either professional or community theatre performers take on those roles, and present the murder mystery to an audience, usually in conjunction with a meal.

According to Liddy, when the plan was finally approved, " there was no longer enough lead time to get the Cuban waiters up from their Miami hotels and into place in the Washington Hotel where the dinner was to take place " and the plan was " put into abeyance pending another opportunity ".

He purchases the house and hosts a dinner party there, to which he invites, among others, Villefort and Madame Danglars.

Even on Saturdays, when the restaurant opens only for dinner, she is there early in the morning to begin cooking barbecued ribs.

As the dinner begins there are reactions to gunshots in the distance.

As Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey asked a Newcastle-upon-Tyne Fox dinner in 1819: " What subject is there, whether of foreign or domestic interest, or that in the smallest degree affects our Constitution which does not immediately associate itself with the memory of Mr Fox?

" He also commented “ there ’ s nothing Porthos likes more than dinner time ".

Boswell wrote: " After dinner to-day, we talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange ’ s being sent to St Kilda, and confined there for several years, without any means of relief.

Members are generally expected to dine in the Arlosh Hall, where there is a twice-weekly formal dinner at which students dress in jackets, ties, and gowns.

It was there, especially at dinner parties and similar aristocratic social gatherings, that he acquired a reputation as a storyteller, developing witty and highly exaggerated accounts of his adventures in Russia.

The future Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor stopped there for dinner on May 27, 1516.

Robbie invites her to his home for dinner the following week and arranges for all the children for whom she cared to be there with their spouses.