"You pick up the crumbs I drop at the dinner table and stick them in books, " he said.
He was an erudite wit at the dinner table and, as the reader now sees, in his letters.
That being said, Stanford and Wisconsin fans have a lot of cheering to do this week, both around the dinner table and on the gridiron.
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Born Feb. 1, 1909, in Winchester, Ontario, George Beverly Shea grew up singing around the family dinner table and then later in his father's church choir.
And why not, many will ask, after the extraordinary video of the Tory co-treasurer offering to sell access to the prime minister's private dinner table and his policy unit.
The furor has raised concerns about the complex network of slaughterhouses and suppliers that handle food on its way to the dinner table and the controls governing food transported across borders.
One night in Kenya (I was there), a comely woman at the peak of her beauty, lent across the dinner table and told Teller that she used to do life modelling.
There are a few topics that one should avoid around both the dinner table and the water cooler, says Charles Purdy, senior editor of job site Monster.com and author of Urban Etiquette.
And as in the previous ad, the updates come to life as a ballerina performs on the dinner table and friends have a snowball fight while the boring relatives go on, you know, talking and listening to each other.
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We've gotten pictures of fans at the dinner table, and there's an Ugly with its own chair.
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I'll be thinking about sitting around the dinner table, and seeing them happy and healthy and knowing they were loved.
This song, the title track, makes reference to wives who get dinner on the table and husbands who should be more grateful to them.
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.
In 1669, in a bid to cut down on violence, King Louis XIV of France decreed all pointed knives on the street or the dinner table illegal, and ordered all knife points ground down.
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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Book a table for dinner and listen to the live music from the comfort of your seat.
It's now a few weeks' wait for a table at dinner, and often just a few days for lunch.
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But what has enraged prohibitionists more are posters inside bars and hotels which show the actor, wearing a cap and dinner suit, sitting at a table with a plate full of banana chips and a bottle of the branded whisky.
At the dinner table, he takes her plate and cuts her food into bite-size pieces.
The loss of trust began in the early 2000s when scandals like Enron and WorldCom became dinner table conversation.
My older son is a few hours behind, so our dinner table conversations about HOC are cautious and circumspect.
Gore's favorite was her description of an elegant family dinner table in Mississippi with much lace and candles and crystal and the elderly matriarch -- bedecked in rich brocade and a jeweled tiara -- making her way unsteadily to the table after a touch or two of bourbon and Seconal upstairs.
Dad comes home after dinner and sits at the kitchen table.
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He grew up hearing the same dinner-table conversations about lipstick market share and department store displays as his elder brother William, who's now president of Clinique Laboratories.
Perhaps you closed a big contract at work or perhaps you managed to get the kids to soccer practice, help them with their homework, and get dinner on the table.
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They opened it to paying guests in 1996, but it still feels like the home of the coolest people you know, especially when everyone gathers in the living room for cocktails and dinner at a communal table.
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.
You might imagine the conversations that will take place around the dinner table down the road when the unthinkable happens and their Googler children ever consider jumping ship.
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One Friday night in May, Zikmund-Fisher looked across the dinner table at 3-year-old Jesse and noticed that his right ear, which usually lies close to his head, was sticking out.
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These wines are likely to be more friendly with the food than the aforementioned two whites, but not too heavy to open up and drink before dinner hits the table.
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