Word: caff
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...white and black-especially black-are the favorite colors of Nino Caffé. But for a long time, working away at still lifes, landscapes and portraits, he had small chance to use them. Then one day Caffé looked out of his window in Urbino and saw young black-frocked Italian seminarians roughhousing in a courtyard. He has concentrated ever since on painting Italy's young priests...
...coffeehouses of Istanbul last week Turks sipped their thick coffee with two-fold satisfaction. Word had got around that in Italy, where all the caffè espresso machines have long been cold, Italians were singing under their breath a mournful song. The song...
...appointed. He also ran the halls successfully and well. But the President still disliked the cafeteria. The fact that the "caff" was too small to feed the number of students desiring to eat there made no difference. Despite the fact that every year a waiting list, numbered into the hundreds, while Memorial Hall was begging for customers, it was decided that the cafeteria be closed. The burning of Massachusetts Hall afforded an excuse of expediency. The college needed the room for offices. Here was a chance to discontinue the cafeteria, and to make Memorial Hall conform to the ideals...
...cafeteria used Memorial Hall kitchen. But serving both "Mem" and the "Caff" the kitchen was utilized up to its minimum capacity, at least. Instead of moving the cafeteria into the lower end of Memorial, the lower end was partitioned off and left blank. Half of the Serving-room is idle. All equipment is half utilized. The upstairs rooms are empty. Yet there was no room for a cafeteria, for the cafeteria was disliked. Sentiment again. At the first of the year graduate students were preached a sermon, "Be thou gregarious". To be gregarious meant to eat in groups...
...uneducated, considering the few opportunities for improvement, slovenly and vulgar pronunciation is to be expected; but the fact that men of three or four years' standing in a respectable college, who, sublimely ignoring dictionaries and the examples of all trustworthy authorities, will persist in calling half haff, and calf caff, shows both gross negligence in an important particular and godlike confidence in their own self-sufficiency...