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...long struggle, the cost of living has increased 50% in Spain in the past year. Wages have not gone up. Bread lines in Catalonia are longer than during the blockade of the Republic. In Valencia, famed for its arroz dishes, there is a scarcity of rice. Aristocrats dine at Madrid's Ritz on chick peas. Butter, eggs, meat, oil. coffee and sugar are rationed, when they...
Next to Phi Beta Kappa, the Pore is Harvard's oldest club. Best-documented version of its founding: about 1790 a group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...
...Richmond's conservative Commonwealth Club 200 Virginians and their guests last week gathered to dine on terrapin stew, beaten biscuits, Smithfield ham and orange ice, toast Argentina and the U. S. in brimming glasses of champagne. Cause of these happy doings: a preview that night at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts of the largest show of Argentine art ever put on outside South America. Said Argentine Ambassador Felipe A. Espil: "A country's artistic creations are the best exponents of its psychology and temperament." Eighty-year-old Counselor Robert Walton Moore of the U. S. Department...
...trained in expensive academies whose cost barred them to the poor. Promotion is now from the ranks; the mistress of a Tommy on active service today receives from the State the same allowance as though she were his wife; Tommy when home on leave can, for the first time, dine in the same restaurants as Army officers; and when Private Atkins goes back to his regiment he finds solicitous "personnel officers"-created by Hore-Belisha-who have no other duty than to watch over his personal welfare. In short the Army has been "vigorously democratized," and there was no question...
Memorial Hall will be used as a dining hall for the first time in many years when President Conant, ex-President Lowell, Governor Salt-onstall, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and many others dine and wine the Yard Police mentor...