But the problem is one which gives us the measure of a man, rather than a group of men, whether a group of doctors, a group of party members assembled at a dinner to give their opinion, or the masses of the voters.

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 ''.

It is possible that Morse told the woman it was 11:20, but it could have been earlier, since she did serve dinner on time.

The dinner is sponsored by organized labor and is scheduled for 7 p.m..

At dinner one night, when he was fourteen, Richard announced, `` There is only one god ''.

Invitations to have dinner at home is generally viewed as a symbol of friendship, warmth, and integration.

Sunday family dinner is considered the most significant meal of the week, whose highlights often include asado or pasta.

Bubble and squeak is a traditional English dish made with the shallow-fried leftover vegetables from a roast dinner.

Another Gate House tradition that no longer occurs is the " stirring the chicken ," a dinner and keg party where house members cook chicken fajitas for hundreds of guests.

This is refuted by one of Emily Brontë's diary papers, in which she describes preparing meat and potatoes for dinner at the parsonage, as Juliet Barker points out in her biography, The Brontës.

" That same year, then-U. S. President Gerald Ford acknowledged the stature of the comic strip, telling the Radio and Television Correspondents ’ Association at their annual dinner, " There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order.

Vladimir Putin is known to have given Stoiber " extreme forms of flattery " and privileges such as a private dinner at Putin's residence outside Moscow.

The phrase si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam / cenam (" if you bring with you a good and great / dinner ") is sharply enjambed between the third and fourth lines.

Combermere St Quintin, who is surprised at dinner with his family.

For one of his biographers, Hepworth Dixon, Bacon's influence in modern world is so great that every man who rides in a train, sends a telegram, follows a steam plough, sits in an easy chair, crosses the channel or the Atlantic, eats a good dinner, enjoys a beautiful garden, or undergoes a painless surgical operation, owes him something.

": Grandpa Jones is cleaning a window pane ( with no glass in it ) and recites a dinner menu in poetic verse.

To this day, the result is that in many areas, a large ham, not a turkey, is the centerpiece of a family Christmas dinner.

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.

They cultivated only those arts which could add splendor to the nation, to the neglect of those which supported it – They neglected Trade & substantial Manufacture ... but does it follow that a total revolution is necessary that because we have given ourselves up too much to the ornaments of life, we will now have none at all ". When attending a dinner at Holland House, Fox's niece Caroline was sat next to Reynolds and " burst out into glorification of the Revolution – and was grievously chilled and checked by her neighbour's cautious and unsympathetic tone ".

Some restaurants might use the suffix-zen ( 膳 ) as a classier though dated synonym to the more familiar, since the latter basically is a term for a combo meal served at a, akin to a diner .. Teishoku means a meal of fixed menu, a dinner à prix fixe served at or, which is somewhat vague ( shokudō can mean a diner type restaurant or a corporate lunch hall ); but e. g. defines it as fare served at, etc., a diner-like establishment.

Koi's bright colors put them at a severe disadvantage against predators ; a white-skinned Kohaku is a visual dinner bell against the dark green of a pond.

Most nations also host at least one banquet per week, where a three course dinner is served.

The dinner will be held at the Hotel Pierre.

A father and son dinner sponsored by the Men's Club will be held at 6:15 p.m. Monday and the annual church picnic at 4 p.m. next Saturday.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

The wounded officers taken prisoner were held on board Vanguard, where Nelson regularly entertained them at dinner.

This is followed by a state dinner given by the president which is held in the State Dining Room later in the evening.

After dinner, many Muslims participate in special communal prayers held during Ramadan.

The farewell dinner to Jardine was held on January 22, 1839 with several members of the Foreign settlement in Canton mostly traders.

John Nkomo, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe, praised China's investment on 24 April 2007 during a state dinner in Harare held during the four-day visit of Jia Qinglin, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, to Zimbabwe.

For example, when Mendes used a slow push in to the Burnhams ' dinner table, he held the shot because his training as a theater director taught him the importance of putting distance between the characters.

Later in the year, however, Isabella and Edward held a large dinner in London to celebrate their return and Isabella apparently noticed that the purses she had given to her sisters-in-law were now being carried by two Norman knights, Gautier and Philippe d ' Aunay.

Zhou himself was nearly killed in a similar trap, when he was arrested after arriving at a dinner held at the headquarters of Si Lie, a Nationalist commander of Chiang's Twenty-sixth Army.

Louise Brooks remembered: " I held a dinner party sometime in 1926.

After his move to 444 Ocampo Drive, Pacific Palisades, he held innumerable dinner parties for the artistic and literary figures of the time.

The title St. Leger Stakes was decided at a dinner party held in 1777 to discuss the following year's race.

Their rivalry has not always been peaceful — on May 21, 2004, following a dinner held by King Juan Carlos I of Spain on the eve of the wedding of his son Felipe, Prince of Asturias, Vittorio Emanuele punched Amedeo twice in the face.

A Japanese special envoy arrives on the Clipper on his way to Washington, D. C. That evening, a dinner is held, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Japanese Emperor Hirohito are both toasted in hopes of peace.

On her feast day ( 25 November ), a formal dinner is held for all final year students within Balliol.

The bowl, which weighs more than and holds, was used at a dinner held in the Radcliffe Camera in 1814, to celebrate what was supposed to be the final defeat of Napoleon.

Further down the road a Lutefisk dinner is held annually in Cranfills Gap, near the site of the historic St. Olaf Kirke often called the Old Rock Church.

* Lion's Club Annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner – Also commemorating St. Patrick's Day is the annual Lion's Club corned beef dinner held annually in the Concrete High School commons.

In October 1938, Taylor attracted particular controversy by a speech he gave at a dinner held every October to commemorate a protest by a group of Oxford dons against James II in 1688, an event that was an important prelude to the Glorious Revolution.

The Fox Club was established in London in 1790 and held the first of its Fox dinners – annual events celebrating Fox's birthday – in 1808 ; the last recorded dinner taking place at Brooks's in 1907.

Fox is also commemorated in a termly dinner held in his honour at his alma mater, Hertford College, Oxford, by students of English, history and the romance languages.

Prince Gustaf proposed at a dinner held by Lord Cromer at the British Consulate in Egypt, and was accepted.