He had done it while that idiotic volunteer fire chief, Allison, stood grinning as if it had been a bean supper instead of an explosion that had killed a fine woman.

'They've been at that bean supper for twelve years, I guess.'

I spent four months covering flower shows, drag races, and bean suppers at about a hundred a week before my first check from Random House came in--$27,000, after the agent's commission had been deducted.

Jake thought, The bean supper will be starting in an hour or so.

This is a pretty well equipped place--a lot of bean suppers and holiday meals have been prepared here.

No annex building, no Sunday school, no bean suppers.

We have bean suppers, Jell-O molds and chicken dinners galore.'

Fish fries, bean suppers, and pitch-in dinners alternated between the fire station and the churches.

I read about a bean supper at the Congregational church in Mattapoisett, about a father-son baseball game at the junior high school field in Rochester, about a local debutante's ball at the Wamsutta Club.