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...what you'd call a cad." Besides a cad, one learns that he is an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, an ex-Paris tourist guide, an ex-husband, a part-time painter, a would-be cinema director. He lives in a trailer on a vacant lot next to a buffet known as Spike's Place. Spike (Edgar Kennedy) calls him to the telephone by firing an air rifle at a gong hung in the trailer window. His connection with Margit, until they make a deal, is limited to a friendship with her Bohemian sister Irene (Florence Rice) and the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Tomorrow night the Puritans will present their annual fall dance with Don Gahan's orchestra providing the music for dancing from 8 until 12 o'clock. A buffet supper will be served from 6 to 7:15 o'clock. In addition to the novel lighting effects, feature of the party will be the large space available for dancing, for the Junior Common Room of the House has been pressed into service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House News | 10/22/1937 | See Source »

Previously, a buffet lunch was served to the 302nd crop of Harvard students and a sprinkling of gentlemen of unidentified classes. After withstanding and returning the individual curiosity of one another and the Union waitresses the guests retired to the floor of the main dining hall which grew ever harder as the reception progressed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Sperry, Neilson in Role of Hosts As Class of 1941 Gets Official Welcome | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

...hand and shaking fingers in the other. It is hard for the popular Andoverite or Grotonian to understand the feeling of complete, bitter solitude which assails countless new students the first few days of their college career. The Union has tried to mitigate this condition by providing an excellent buffet supper on registration day, served by waitresses with motherly smiles. What with the awful immensity of Memorial Hall and the complexities of the registration card, University Hall can do little to help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REFUGE FOR LONELY HEARTS | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

...Buffet supper at Harvard Union. All Union activities are open equally to those Freshmen living in the dormitories and those living at home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Program of Events on Freshman Calendar | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

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