Word: cafee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against French law to feed forcibly a prisoner in jail. Therefore Mme Hanau was removed under guard to Cochin hospital, where the seven brawny internes had a struggle indeed. The tip of a funnel was placed in one of Mme Hanau's nostrils. Some lukewarm cafe au lait was poured into her. After this ordeal the patient seemed to be so exhausted that she was merely locked in a hospital room and left alone without special guards...
Cried apple-cheeked Gretchen: "Please, mother! Please, Please, PLEASE!! You don't understand. We're not 'white slaves' or anything so silly. We're going to Buenos Aires to dance in the best cafe, and we've all got contracts! It's perfectly all right...
Entering a Madrid cafe one evening last fortnight, Lieutenant Miguel Primo de Rivera bustled up to General Queipo de Llano, recently author of an "insulting" letter to the onetime Dictator. Serene, the General sat at a corner table, elegantly sipping deviled coffee (with brandy), secure in the belief that a mere lieutenant would not dare violently to resent the insult of a general...
Locke Ober Cafe, Winter Place, Boston. One of the interesting old Harvard rendezvous with excellent food...
...anniversary, eating establishments which openly display the brass rail, sawdust and an oyster-bar, barbaric symbols of a bygone age, will remove the same or be relieved of their licenses (see the Boston Herald, the Chief of Police or Ezekiel 23). Frequenters of such landmarks as the Loch-Ober Cafe and Jake Wirth's will be delighted to know that these historic features which have so often influenced their baser natures in the past, are to be relegated to the scrap heap...