Word: diner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manager David Libidins was vastly relieved when he saw the gangplanks lifted. It had not been easy to mind 52 dancers, seven mothers, two fathers, 21 orchestramen, a marmoset, four turtles, a rabbit, a dog. To accommodate the troupe there had been six Pullmans, four baggage cars and a diner, besides the two-room auto-trailer which Leonide Massine, maitre de ballet, used because he wanted his borshch and pirozhki prepared by his own Russian cook...
...attempt at fanciness. Disguised under a bewildering variety of names, for which the French usually have to take a new and unpleasant responsibility, old stand-bys like stew are eventually discovered. Only initiates, through long association, remember that Milanaise, Fricandeau, etc., are inevitably connected with certain dishes. One sage diner successfully adopted the simple plan of steering a proportionally wider berth, the longer the French name...
...large was the crowd which turned out to meet and welcome the new mentor that the diner was held in the Union rather than in the Varsity Club where it was originally scheduled...
...which includes a round-trip railroad-fare, accommodations at the Hotel Lincoln for Saturday night, and an orchestra seat in the National Theatre. The streamlined "Within the Gates" Special leaves the South Stations about noon Saturday, and returns from New York about midnight Sunday. As an added inducement, a diner has been added to the train for lunch...
...Harvard dining hall officials reported that Harvardmen are confirmed milk-guzzlers. A $900 beer license had earned only $521.55 since Jan. 1, each student diner averaging one bottle per three weeks...