Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prices ranging from $1.50 to $7.00 per night, and the steamer passage over will be made in orderly fashion on chartered ships assigned to various states. For example, Legionnaires from Iowa will sail on the Megantic. Meals in Paris, however, will be excepted from arrangement or routine. Over cafe and restaurant tables Legionnaires will make contact again with waiters to whom food is a poem, drink a philosophy and the tip a sum honorably earned -to be demanded, if necessary, as U. S. small businessmen demand payment of small bills...
...said to be going to California that night and would very much like to see the Harvard team practice. No objection was found and he saw Harvard carefully practicing the flying wedge. Several weeks later when he had reached California, he happened to be sitting in a cafe in San Francisco with another elderly man and unwittingly told the other the new development in Harvard's offense. The only trouble with his disclosure was that a Yale man happened to overhear the conversation and wrote to Walter Camp word for word what he had heard...
...rendezvous and there are others. It is often found that in later years graduates in recalling their college days will remember most pleasantly some eating place where they foregathered according to tradition. The selected beer gardens of the various student's corrs of the German universities, the famous Pekawook Cafe at Columbia, these are examples of places long remembered and almost traditional in the life of universities. Harvard was on the road to having one of its own in the Waldorf. The new antiseptic tables have robbed the place of any individuality (not to say comfort) the place ever...
Boulevardeurs discussed the news over cafe tables placed beneath the lime-trees of the broad Ujazdowska Aleja. Polish Jews rubbed expectant palms over their newspapers in the tumbledown Stare Miasto quarter. Money was coming to Poland, the headlines told, much money, three hundred millions of dollars...
...Proper Pronunciation Commission in this country, to persuade U. S. radiannouncers not to call a "suite" (of rooms or furniture) a "suit," a "coupe" (small closed car) a "coop," a "radiator" a "raddiator,"or radio"raddio" not to say "worshing" (a Pittsburghism) for "washing," "kewpon" for "coupon" "kaif" for "cafe," "pitcher" for "picture," "umbrella," "athaletic," 'fillum" and "I-ow'a" for their comparatively manageable originals...