The bandleader Lester Lanin, who has died aged 97, was waving his stick when nightclubs were still places frequented by society figures who went for suppers after a show.
He was at work before eight, went home for supper, but then went back to the office and worked late into the night trying to solve mechanical problems with his newest design.
They went home for supper before going out again, to earn a few dollars doing some work for a local odd-job man.
And recently she had a get-together – "nothing grand, just a few of us went out for supper" – to mark the 25th anniversary of House, the work that propelled her, at 30, into fame and controversy and, the following year, made her the first woman to win the Turner prize.
Kemal's dogged endurance may try our patience, though his dead-end accounting provides a bleak comedy: "According to my notes, during the 409 weeks that my story will now describe, I went there for supper 1,593 times".
He let me go to work for supper money and streetcar tokens.
Hamill and Fisher bonded almost instantly when they met, after being cast in Star Wars, and Hamill suggested the two of them go out for supper to get to "know each other a bit".
Carol Murray, the mother of my friend Holly Murray, wrote in an e-mail that when she got married in 1980, "it was just your close girlfriends going out for supper the week before the wedding".
I'd take a dip in the sea and after a light lunch and a long siesta, I'd read for a few hours before going out for supper.
Then the players went for their naps and a pregame supper.
