Word: cafeteria
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...Manhattan, one Chick Gum, Chinese cafeteria cook, was tossing flapjacks in the hurry of early trade one morning last week. Of one jack he lost control. Flapping high, it curved down into the open neck of the Gum undershirt. Chick Gum yowled, got a doctor...
...chicken and green peas that the Radcliffe girl ate on the steps of Cambridge's longest ladder wagon after the fire in the Georgian Cafeteria on Wednesday were overshadowed in importance last night. A uniformed fireman knocked at the door of the Hasty Pudding clubhouse and wanted to know when "Fireman, Save My Child" would first he played in Cambridge. He was told. He then confided the suspicion that lay behind such fraternality...
Piggly Wiggly stores, as many a U. S. housewife knows, are cafeteria-groceries. Instead of dealing with salespersons, the customer tours the store with a large basket, makes her own selections from neatly-stocked shelves. In spite of its apparent latitude to shoplifters, the Piggly Wiggly idea has proved extremely successful, partly because of its novelty, partly because neat packages and large advertising appropriations have made retail grocery selling almost an automatic procedure...
...Scholar comes from New College, one of the three large colleges of Oxford University, and finds points of difference quite striking. "You are much busier here than the majority of Oxford students appear to be Meals in English colleges are always a social event. Here one dashes into a cafeteria and dashes out again with as little delay as possible; there, even when eating at college, we take a great deal of time. Most entertaining comes at meal time and a lunch invitation may easily last from noon till tea time, while a dinner invitation always takes from 7 until...
...Harvard cafeteria near the square recently multiplied its revenues by employing a band to entertain its patrons. For years the Hollywood director has made use of music to spur the actors to greater emotional heights on the principle that music has charms which do more than soothe. It remained for the ever ingenious French nation to apply the principle yet further...