Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stertorian grunts of wrath and the banging of doubled fists on tiny cafe tables disturbed a balmy Vienna afternoon, last week, as excitable Austrians forgot their tall foaming glasses of amber beer and devoured lurid headlines...
...reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries to get the better of her other lovers. Eva who inherits her Russian mother's charming promiscuity was accustomed to arrive penniless at some unfortunate town, take up her abode at the workhouse, but carouse nightly at cafe and dance hall. Eva once traveled from Ireland with nine Catholic priests; all went to the same London hotel; all went to the cinema; all held hands. "Nine Catholic priests, and you in the middle?"-"No, at one end. Father Michael and I holding hands, and all the other eight...
...gratitude that the fame of Ibsen has "put Norway on the map," for ignorant millions would otherwise scarcely differentiate it from Denmark or Sweden. Perhaps the most familiar tradition of Ibsen is that of an old man who would sit for hours at a bay window of the Grand Cafe in Oslo (then Christiania) staring with unseeing eyes at the bodies of his countrymen but piercing their souls with uncanny insight. His reward is that the theatre-goers of today, who constitute for him "posterity," have already witnessed a greater number of showings of each of his major plays than...
They tarried in Manhattan on their way to Washington. Manhattanites remarked that President Quezon was a cafe-au-lait replica of their small, garrulous Irish Mayor, James J. Walker. The likeness is more than skin-deep. Just as Mayor Walker is "Jimmie" to the Manhattan millions, President Quezon is "Manny" to the Filipinos and Filipinas. He has an extraordinary flair for popularity. Perhaps it is the Spanish blood in his veins that makes him an impassioned demagogue. He fought with Aguinaldo in the Insurrection, governed a province, served 10 years in Washington as Resident Commissioner and burns...
...Brussels. The debauchees of the previous night were asleep. The famed fountains exuded sparkling water in the sunlight as passers-by bought their morning newspapers and hurried to their cafe an lait at nearby restaurants. There was a faint bustle in the air as the capital began to get into its business stride...