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...printed the menu at Memorial Hall and taught night school, and for two terms I worked in the Library. I mended shoes and repaired bicycles, and to this day a certain Dean tells me with much gusto of the miracle I performed on his wheel while he finished dessert during the lunch hour with his family. I addressed envelopes and painted wagons. I sold the Lampoon for "Alex," and I wrote an article about the humor in "Mutt and Jeff" for the Boston American, I went without lunch sometimes and occasionally I wore two rubbers that belonged on the left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE LIFE EOR THE UNDERGRADUATE WHO EARNS HIS BREAD DESCRIBED BY A PROFESSOR WHO PLAYED JACK OF ALL TRADES | 6/12/1925 | See Source »

...Meanwhile the Philharmonic Orchestra got through one of its two positively final farewell encore appearances under Mr. Mengelberg. The parting diet consisted of another performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (TIME, March 17), with a plangent, daringly lugubrious Bach cantata, Selig ist der Mann, as dessert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flonzaleys Fight | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...anyway." By keeping his head in this particular case, he remains on the right side of everybody, for even the waitresses sympathize in his bereavement. It is needless to describe now he ate the shredded wheat on the cob, or the steak, or the jellied egg, or the dessert of pie a la mode, sauce oyster. If one merely understands and imitates the epicurean spirit in ordering, and the knack of turning apt phrases, then one can rest assured oft success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TO THE MANOR BORN" | 10/28/1922 | See Source »

...other articles now served, including dessert, would still be served as at present and their cost would be divided among the members as at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTE ON NEW MEMORIAL PLAN | 5/20/1903 | See Source »

...other articles now served, including dessert, would still be served as at present; and their cost would still be divided amongst the members as at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Plan for Memorial Hall. | 5/9/1903 | See Source »

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