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So, large community meals might have served to lubricate social connections and alleviate tensions. Much like dinner parties today.

It is also the sort of thing that would have made an interesting talking point at dinner parties.

As I missed all the dinner parties at Barry's, she invited me to eat at her home also with another Chinese girl.

He began sporadically hosting bug dinner parties, gatherings of friends and friends of friends.

But as most people in the United States have no servants, their dinner parties at home are decidedly informal.

Mann went fishing, bought sculptures and threw dinner parties for a small set of friends.

Gifts are expected for social events, especially as a "thank-you" for private dinner parties or overnight stays in someone's home.

Thanks to Brissenden, his black suit was out of pawn and he was again eligible for dinner parties.

Water rationing during the dry spell put a damper on activities from dish-intensive dinner parties to car washes and bubble baths.

A GOOD way to be unpopular at dinner parties is to praise the British railway system.

It was the late 1950s, and not only were Americans buying lots of new homes, they were hosting dinner parties with mood music.

Even after Prohibition was repealed she served only beer at her private dinner parties, and hated to do that.

Relationships blossom in non-networking, low stress, situations (dinner parties and social settings) because nothing is expected.

One oft-cited sign of the housing market's top: when dinner parties are dominated by stories about fast profits on flipped condominiums.

He is a laureate of corruption, and his friends have introduced him at dinner parties as a writer of pornography.

She lived a pampered life of cocktails and dinner parties, never telling her secrets.

After fancy dinner parties, people liked to take off some of their clothes and show off their tattoos.

Dinner parties tend to be smaller events and are, therefore, more intimate.

When fellow guests at dinner parties start competing over "horror stories" about their family holidays, I generally stay quiet.

I usually write my books at home with a cup of tea and leave far from all kinds of dinner parties, that's happy.

I might be welcome at dinner parties once again.

To the person with those much dinner parties, best beverage is oolong; Also can use coke reducing weight of course.

Palace records show the dessert was a favorite at palace dinner parties.

Popular ingredients for dinner parties were Russian caviar, white truffle and champagne.

The oven is older than time but believe it or not we've hosted seated dinner parties of 12 in this space.

Chinese weddings in big cities are usually very boring big dinner parties in big hotels.

Tibetans are forsaking dancing and dinner parties for vigils with yak-butter candles and the chanting of prayers.

Throw dinner parties with a mixed range of guests.

The modern and rustic table is perfect for dinner parties and large walls with high ceilings great for art.

An all around favorite, from barbeques to sophisticated dinner parties.

all dinner parties, there is only one rule to these get- togethers : have fun.

He was going to lots of dinner parties. But there were no problems: all the other guests were bankers too.

At Chinese dinner parties, the dishes are usually placed in the middle of the table.

Besides, table manners are only important at formal dinner parties. If your.

Besides, table manners are only important at formal dinner parties.

Beside, table manners are only important at formal dinner parties.

It has become simply another day for huge meals, dinner parties, get-togethers or reunions.

What makes. . . um, things special for New Yorkers is when they throw dinner parties.

It's an astonishing app that's great to pull out during dinner parties, beachwalks or sleepless nights in bed.

We only have dinner parties very occasionally these days.

It is possible to imagine that one day investment bankers may again be welcome at dinner parties.

No wonder she held people in rapt attention at dinner parties, in line at the market, at bus stops.

A snob is someone who judges all things, from shoes and dinner parties to love and beauty, according to their social rating ?

The problem with adopting it at dinner parties is manners.

Butin London, dinner parties are in people's homes.

I participated in the panels on Commodity (sic) and China-India and in some obligatory dinner parties.

a. The rich lady likes to give dinner parties in style.

I asked him if he felt it was becoming safe to go to dinner parties again.

Joanna: No, not really. I don't like dinner parties.

That's why at dinner parties, it's fine to serve cava instead of champagne.

Now when we have dinner parties, we lay out the buffet on any handy surface.

I know when I was a bride I used to be all of a tremble when I went to dinner parties.

The house and hostess may urge a guest to stay longer in order to be polite, but most dinner parties break up at about 11 o'clock.

She reigned over dinner parties of 50 or 100 people.

Dinner parties usually start between 7and 8 p. m. and end at about 11.

Dinner parties usually start between 7 and 8 pm and end at about 11.

When we go to dinner parties my husband always shows me up with the rude jokes he tells.

The good news is that if you go to dinner parties as infrequently as I do, things may be less intense next time.

I like those dinner parties where table ware are meticulously set and candles are dimly lit.

He felt fortunate to be a guest at one of her small, select dinner parties

and at dinner parties, it will be as if there's a language that sounds like English,

for the maintenance of open hospitality for all, as opposed to the offering of luxurious private dinner parties in the City;

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