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Invasion of Privacy. In Melbourne, police arrested Louey Chow, who was just sitting on a park bench sewing a patch on his only pair of pants...
...Chin-Chow (1916) holds a longer record for the London stage: 2,238 performances...
Although they knew that nobody would try to shove them aside, the hungry men began taking great care to guard their places in the chow line. They showed a strongly possessive attitude toward their food; at table, some leaned suspiciously over their trays, "protecting" their rations with their arms. The men were "cultured and refined," the researchers reported, but soon they all unashamedly licked their dishes. As they got hungrier & hungrier, food became the chief subject of their conversation and their daydreams. They became fond of poring over cookbooks and hotel menus...
...Murray Hill house was built in 1863, its walls rumored to be bulletproofed against Civil War draft rioters. George S. Bowdoin, a partner of J. P. Morgan, acquired it some 20 years later. In its backyard is a cemetery with eight weathered headstones-one for each of the chow dogs buried there by Bowdoin's spinster daughter, Edith, who died five years ago. What was left of gilt and ormolu in the house glistened under new fluorescent lights. Businesslike desks, clacking typewriters and paid workers crowded the high-ceilinged chambers...
...view of the current food crisis in the world, it strikes me that many of us here at Harvard are singularly wasteful. As we pass down through the chow line we forget that we are no longer in the Army, and receive our food with little choice. We forget that we can take as much, or as little, as we desire. Instead we take a great deal more food than we ever est and end up leaving half of it on trays...