Word: diner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the opening horseplay, at last week's Duck Dinner every diner except one was dead serious about the problem of North America's diminishing wild ducks. The lone, tipsy dissenter held up proceedings for ten minutes while he argued with great gravity that the press of urgent civic problems made duck discussion trivial if not unpatriotic. Earnest conservationists listened with growing restlessness as other speakers deplored the duck decrease, bemoaned the fact that since most ducks breed in Canada there is little the U. S. can do about it. The audience wanted something constructive. They...
Last week a fellow-diner of ours suddenly had a call. With very little warning he walked over and climbed to the top of an out-of-the-way radiator. He examined it intently and then announced, "Yes, it's still there". Producing a very fusty relie of a waffle, he explained that over a year ago in a frolicsome mood he had tossed it up to that lodging. Ever since we have caught ourselves eyeing all the obscure crannies and corners with half-conscious suspicion. A detachment of idle biddies (and there are plenty) seems to be the only...
HOTEL STATLER-- Ideal menu, faultless band, inimitable songstress, diner dancing, supper dancing--in short, it's the "tops...
...roof of the Hotel Bradofrd, presenting the Ziegfeld Follies star, Jena Sargent, in the aristocrat of floor shows "Autumn Days." Fifty gorgeous "Boots McKenna girls" are dazzling. Seven course diner, $1.50. Never a cover charge. For reservations call...
...outside, asked for apology, received none, and struck. There was one blow, no word of either Hauptmann case or next day's election. Verify by Rainbow Room attendants who picked up Wedemar and put him in elevator. I returned to table, made brief speech, no diner knew of unfortunate happening. Disparity in weights, yes. My suggestion to Wedemar that next time he feels urge to call a Governor name he called me to pick out a 130-lb. Governor. Am I wrong in believing that vaunted Freedom of Press does not include unbridled freedom of its agents...