Word: delicatessens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles and of Parliament, he withdrew his resignation. Spaak was back on his own terms-the compromise finally adopted in the school dispute was (except for minor details) the one on which he had insisted all along. "He is really strong -too strong for the others," said a Brussels delicatessen storekeeper as he closed down for Whitsuntide. "Anyway, now we can all enjoy a quiet holiday...
TIME, March 29, most likely under the influence of delicatessen dining, accuses Thomas More of having been overly fond of corned beef. I am at a loss to account for the source of your information. Perhaps you drew on your carnivorous imagination or relied on some biographical chitchat for this impeachment of More's anti-slaughter principles. I have re-examined the Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams for some verification of this corned beef calumny, without finding the slightest substantiation. On the contrary, in More's justly famed Utopia, we find the Utopians condemning every form...
...turned his yacht over to the Mexican navy (then at war), but he opened a de luxe delicatessen with the delicacies from its commissary. To provide employment for the staff of his Mexican Electrolux branch, he set up a factory to make silverware, which was sold from door to door...
...patients: a man with a broken nose and mastiff jowls, who took to crime, he said, after his young son remarked: "Daddy, you look just like a bad man. Why don't you change your face?" Dr. Pick changed his face, and daddy is now a law-abiding delicatessen dealer...
...Arrival Section of the U.N. Transportation Service, telephones jangled and gushed out messages: "Tell so-&-so I won't be at the apartment until later. He'll find the key under the door mat. Tell him he'd better stop at a delicatessen on the way up." The Chinese delegation was arriving at LaGuardia field, and an "Arrival" aide hurried out to meet them, only to find the plane landed and the dignitaries indistinguishably entangled with 55 welcoming Chinese. From another office in the Empire State Building, redheaded U.N. Protocol Chief Jehan de Noue darted constantly...