Word: coking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snubbing the shabby Cabinet minister, from the prairie, or some awful place. . . . This is the city with a new kind of tourist trade, divided equally of one part dollar-a-year men and ten parts two-dollars-a-day stenographers. . . . She is the wartime stenographer who breakfasts on 'coke,' skips lunch, and dines on a 10? sandwich. She shares a room with as many as three other girls and they live in such squalor that, if similar conditions existed elsewhere, Ottawa people would be collecting funds to help them. Meet the Government, biggest operator of sweatshop labor...
...commonest kinds of dates is popularly known ... as a 'joeing date.' These usually occur at the university commons or at some restaurant . . . either between classes or during hours ordinarily set aside for study. In warm weather, a 'coke' or frosted chocolate is usually purchased for refreshment, and on cold days hot coffee or chocolate...
...class is rapidly catching on to the traditions of the NSCS. We learned (the hard way) that the coke-and-cloak room in Briggs is a W-V (S) rendezvous ONLY when no member of the USN is in the building. We guessed we were table conversation after that inauspicious morning of the first lecture when Mr. Ashler started us off with a reprimand and that dark brown look. But now after a little priming and further acquaintance with Longfellow we promise to be a good class and GIVE...
...greatest loss that Stoughtonites incurred in moving to Weld seems to be the luxury of an on-the-spot coke dispenser. Now the poor lads have to walk all the way across the Yard to Hollis--a distance that certain experts claim is practically the same as the span between Weld and McBride's. and much less interesting...
Except for the armed guard at the door, the khaki uniforms and the rack of chevron-emblazoned coats, the office looks like any other publication's editorial rooms, even to the crimson coke machine and the maps on the walls...