Six months later, when Ms. Arden complained about his long vacation in Europe, he cannily proposed dinner at her apartment, where he let her win at cards.
He called before he visited Los Angeles, dubbed Zervos his "O.C. angel" and proposed dinner, she said.
Lyczak proposed dinner with Ayotte on May 1, although she said she would happily work around the senator's schedule.
"I thought he'd propose at dinner," said Ms. Klein, who was playfully miffed, and with her guard adequately down was surprised when they arrived at his apartment.
In Vermont, he came up with the make-or-break offer he would propose at dinner later that week at Mr. Case's home in suburban northern Virginia: Time Warner shareholders would agree to own only 45percentt of the new company, while America Online shareholders would get 55percentt.
A year later, Mr. Price proposed during dinner at Ms. Berman's home in Armonk, N.Y.
She accepted — and accepted again two months later when he proposed after dinner on a secluded beach in Montauk, N.Y.
They proposed a dinner party at Jason's mother's house in Tacoma, practically on the shore of Puget Sound, where the bottle had been stored in the cellar.
The achievement of peace and harmony depends on the success of a proposed Christmas dinner that becomes a modest British answer to "Babette's Feast".
By 1933, she has enough confidence in their shared approach to life to be able to write him, about a proposed public dinner in New York, "Can you imagine anything more revolting than a large room crawling with authors?" His belief in her soundness is most clearly expressed in his eagerness to have her know his other writers.
