This was at the dinner table, Mother at one end, Dad at the other, Fred, Floyd, Rose, and me in between.
One major difference between then and now: alcohol and drinking had long been ubiquitous in American life, from sacramental wine at mass, in Jewish rites, and at the dinner table, to beer at the pub and spirits made in backwoods distilleries.
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It was he who encouraged her to argue at the dinner table (conduct frowned on at the Convent of the Faithful Virgin, where she went to school).
While Brad Serlin has clearly earned his place at the company table, the dynamic between mother and son can sometimes resemble what occurs at the dinner table.
The Pauls believe individuals know best how to regulate themselves at the dinner table.
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She makes faces now and then, passing behind his chair at the dinner table.
At the dinner table, he takes her plate and cuts her food into bite-size pieces.
Plus, find yourself quoting Ken Rudin at the dinner table (unintelligible) on our political addiction.
We spent about two weeks talking about this every night at the dinner table.
We've gotten pictures of fans at the dinner table, and there's an Ugly with its own chair.
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Tamara Pester, a Denver lawyer, has created a game called Passover Bingo to play at the dinner table.
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"You pick up the crumbs I drop at the dinner table and stick them in books, " he said.
Ms. Fierro believes 12 to 14 guests is the largest number you should have at a dinner table.
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He was an erudite wit at the dinner table and, as the reader now sees, in his letters.
Phone books are still really useful ... for short people in need of a boost at the dinner table.
Ruth grew up in a home where women's rights were a constant subject of discussion at the dinner table.
Some years, there are as many as 50 people at the dinner table.
Sunaina and Sanveer were exposed to retail from a young age, with talk at the dinner table revolving around business.
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Within two weeks of her first therapy session, Ava was sitting at the dinner table, something she'd never been able to do.
It serves me at home where we maintain a tradition of gathering each night at the dinner table to eat and talk to each other.
This was particularly noticeable over the range of sound levels associated with everyday tasks such as listening to the television or chatting at the dinner table.
Caesar swings through the house, leaping up and down stairs and throwing himself in and out of the attic, but he sits quietly at the dinner table, too.
"It's my fault, " announced my mother as soon as he began to recount at the dinner table what had transpired there on the eighteenth floor of 1 Madison Avenue.
The entrepreneurs at the dinner table tonight are phenomena.
When my parents passed the mashed potatoes at the dinner table it regularly came with a spoonful of stories about tragic motorcycle accidents, drug overdoses and houses that caught fire from plugged-in toasters.
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What's more, researchers speculate that families who eat together often are more likely to talk about nutrition at the dinner table than families who select individual meals from the kitchen, then go their separate ways.
He puts in an additional 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening that he would spend driving instead, yet he is more relaxed and has more energy than ever before and is able to be at the dinner table, with our family, on time, every night, which never happened while commuting to work.
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