Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeing anti-Semitic slogans (A bas les juifs!) scrawled on walls. To live in France today is, in some neighborhoods, to take the rafle (police dragnet) for granted, to pass quickly by when the black wagons swing into the curb and the burly cops close in on a cafeé and tap each customer for his papers. It is to read, in the influential Le Monde, Editor Beuve-Meéry's melancholy series Simple Thoughts for Has-Beens "enclosed by a past which can no longer be sustained...
Agencies in the first three categories are members of H.S.A. Agencies in the fourth group have the option to join the corporation or not. Several agencies are operating outside of H.S.A. such as: the House Newsstands, University Credit Club, Matchabelli, Harvard Laundromat, Cafe Mozart, and two Student Laundry operations...
...have resisted for some weeks the temptation to tell my own English muffin story, but feel unable to do so any longer. while studying in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I occasionally ate at a cafe run by a number of hyphenated-Americans who have origins ultimately traceable to Ireland. The customers, too, were mostly "Irishmen...
Inside the cafe communication was simple and direct. Order placed at a counter were relayed to a kitchen immediately in a loud voice. The efficiency of the system was further improved by the use of coded abbreviations by means of which, for example, a piece of apple tart with ice-cream emerged as, "Ice the apple...
...last bowed to her family's argument that she would never see Athanassios again, and gave in to the demands that she marry one Christos Savides. As the Depression years and World War II passed, Athanassios Konstantinides (his name changed to Tom Constantine) went into the cafe business, and Soultana Savides became first a mother and then a grandmother...