Word: delicatessens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty that brought occasional giggles from classmates. He described how a history major wrote on his exam that a triple entente was a large club sandwich at the Wursthaus, a Math major proved the earth was a triangle, and an English concentrator claimed Anton Chekhov ran a delicatessen in Brooklyn...
Before long, so many defective watches were returned that Sears advertised for a repairman. Alvah Curtis Roebuck, 23, who had been earning $3.50 a week fixing watches in the corner of a delicatessen shop in Hammond, Ind., got the job. In 1891, Sears set up a partnership with Roebuck (Sears kept two-thirds control) and rapidly expanded sales by filling his catalogue with every come-on known to the sharp retailers...
...description, and quotation, Bainbridge recreates the atmosphere of Shor's hangout, telling of a man who judges people by whether or not he'd like to be with them at two o'clock in the morning, of a man who claims the only five syllable word he knows is "delicatessen...
...longer comme il faut to toss a plain hunk of melon into a fruit salad ... In the period when beer came in kegs, the man of the house hauled it himself. Now that it comes in handy little cans, even a woman can lug a dozen from the delicatessen. The man who speeds by a woman, stopped by a flat tire, can't be accused of lack of chivalry. He knows that the way they make jacks these days, even a woman can change a tire...
...Campus Delicatessen on Massachusetts Avenue was host to the irate eaters. George, the proprietor, said he enjoyed feeding the girls...