dinner

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At Hockney’s 70th-birthday party at Tate Britain in London, Sykes’s biography recounts, the museum’s smoke detectors were turned off for 10 minutes after dinner so the guest of honor could have a cigarette.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

If I go out to dinner, I like going to Sasabune in Glendale.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

After dinner, it was announced that the smoke alarms would be turned off for 10 minutes to allow Britain's Greatest Living Artist a cigarette.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

Stan Haithcock, an annuity agent who bills himself as “Stan the Annuity Man,” has written about these annuity seminars, which he refers to as “bad chicken dinner seminars.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026

Inside I found a large portion of the lasagna that had been at dinner yesterday, reheated so the cheese stuck in gooey puddles to the foil.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin