"Our 'board meetings' are simply conducted over dinner at home, where I run viable projects past my father for approval, comments and ideas," he said.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, May 1 , 1937P. 15 The Henry Goddard Leeches, hide a microphone in centrepieces and conduct their dinner-table conversation within earshot of all America.
The New Yorker, May 1 , 1937P. 15 The Henry Goddard Leeches, hide a microphone in centrepieces and conduct their dinner-table conversation within earshot of all America.
Much more unscrupulous and more extravagant in the bad old days, when much of elite politics was conducted over dinner, drinks or both, in private houses in SW1 or in West End clubs.
Ms. Mosbacher sounded perplexed that people within her party felt that her support for Senator McCain could be seen as a liability and that her plan to conduct salon dinners somewhere in the Republican thickets of Northern Virginia might not go over so well.
After Putin conducted a dinner discussion of the Syrian civil war, much of which Obama reportedly missed, it turned out that only the U.S., France, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Turkey support the proposed U.S. military strikes against Syria's Assad regime for its claimed internal use of chemical weapons.
She introduced the president as "a man I've known for more than 30 years," and wrapped up their conversation by inquiring into whether Trump was still conducting family dinners characterized by "friendliness and camaraderie," noting, "I've even had occasion to be at some of those dinners". The framing was clear: Pirro could vouch for Trump because she's practically family.
Smith conducted formal dinners at his villa, an estate surrounded by gardens and terraces, with two large drawing rooms decorated with mosaics, oriental rugs, and art treasures.
The rogue staffer (a recurring trope in politics) had only come forward and 'fessed up to his conduct in the dinner break, and the correction of the public record had followed shortly after.
4. "High Hopes" (1988): The discomfort-master Mike Leigh conducts an unhappy dinner for the mum of a Marxist and suburban striver. 5. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967): Still the granddaddy of the dinner-party genre.
